Note 36 — APPENDIX IV.
Reading edition
In this apparatus the mercury amalgams of K and Na are run through a fine funnel, so that the freshly-formed surface of the drops may be illuminated. Under these circumstances, while pure mercury fell from -185 to -175 volts in 30sec., amalgam of zinc fell from -195 to -116 in 15sec., amalgam of sodium fell from -195 to 0 in 10sec., and an amalgam of potassium fell from -195 to 0 in 5sec.