CONTENTS

ff. § i. IDENTITY OF ELECTRICITIES FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES .

i. Voltaic Electricity......

ii. Ordinary Electricity .....

iii. Magneto-Electricity ....
iv. Thermo-Electricity ...-••
v. Animal Electricity ......

§ 2. RELATION BY MEASURE OF COMMON AND VOLTAIC
ELECTRICITY ......••

II. § 3. NEW LAW OF ELECTRIC CONDUCTION ....
§ 4. ON CONDUCTING POWER GENERALLY ....

III. § 5. ELECTRO-CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION ....

^ i. New Conditions of Electro-chemical Decom-
position .......

Tf ii. Influence of Water in such Decomposition
*ff iii. Theory of Electro-chemical Decomposition .

IV. § 6. POWER OF PLATINA, ETC., TO INDUCE COMBINATION

V. § 5. ELECTRO-CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION—Continued (NOMEN-
CLATURE) ........

1f iv. Some General Conditions of Electrochemical
Decomposition .....

Tf v. Volta-electromcter .....

IT vi. Primary and Secondary Results .

Ifvii. Definite Nature and Extent of Electro-
chemical Forces ....r

§ 7. ABSOLUTE QUANTITY OF ELECTRICITY IN TIIK MouwuU'i.s
OF MATTER ........

VI. § 8. ELECTRICITY OF THE VOLTAIC PILE ....
If i. Simple Voltaic Circles .....
1f ii. Electrolytic Intensity .....
]f iii. Associated Voltaic Circles; or HjiUwy .
If iv. Resistance of an Electrolyte to Decomposition
If v. General Remarks on the Active Battery
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