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On a Perpetual Form of Secondary Cell

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I HAVE succeeded, after many fruitless attempts, in discovering an indestructible material which can be substituted for lead, as the negative or oxygen-bearing plate of the Faure accumulators, without sacrificing any of the extraordinary good qnalities which that excellent form of secondary couple possesses, excepting only its cheapness of construction.

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HERSCHEL, A. On a Perpetual Form of Secondary Cell. Nature 25, 527–528 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025527b0

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