Open AccessOn the electrical conductivity of air and salt vapours
Author(s) -
H. A. Wilson
Publication year - 1901
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1901.0040
Subject(s) - vapours , conductivity , salt (chemistry) , electrical resistivity and conductivity , research object , materials science , salt solution , chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , environmental chemistry , electrical engineering , engineering , geography , medicine , regional science , psychiatry
The experiments described in this paper were undertaken with the object of obtaining information on the variation of the conductivity of air and of salt vapours with change of temperature, and on the maximum current which a definite amount of salt in the form of vapour can carry. They are a continuation of the two researches on the same subject published in 1899. In the paper on the Electrical Conductivity and Luminosity of Flames (loc. cit .) some observations on the variation of the conductivity with the temperature at different heights in the flame are given. They indicate a rapid increase in the conductivity with rise of temperature.