I. On the diselectrification of air

Abstract

§ 1. The experiment described in § 14 of our paper on the “Electrification of Air and other Gases by bubbling through Water and other Liquids” (‘Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ February 21, 1895), proves that air, electrified negatively by bubbling through water and caused to pass through a metallic wire gauze strainer, gives up some, but not a large proportion, of its electricity to the-metal. We have now made a fresh experimental arrangement for the purpose of investigating diselectrification of air which has been electrified, whether positively or negatively, by other means than bubbling through water: with apparatus represented in figs. 1 and 2, which is simplified from that of our former paper by the omission of the apparatus for electrification by bubbling, and for collecting large quantities of electrified air.