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59 [162] Commented [VK1]: For this edit I mostly focused on

formatting and correcting the tables Kjersten Vincent

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This evening I have made trial of muriatic acid beginning with half a drachm Formatted: Font: 12 pt
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10}.8000 2 34} ..5000 8
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82 } .3169

8} 17}
26}

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1938 decimal points in front and some dont in Drapers
writing
11} 19} 31}
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1 23} .6087 3 -- 44} ..4654 24 Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5", First line: 0.5"
203}.1707

14} 20.50} 35}

2 29} .5517 4 49 } .4387 Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5", First line: 0.5"

16} 21.50}

In the discussion of these measures we still see the general law in operation that the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
intensity rapidly diminishes as the acid is added though the entire quantity is increased
These observations were made very readily greatly more so than those with nitric acid Commented [VK3]: Youre probably right but I think
Draper spelled it wrong as grealty
On comparing the three foregoing tables it appears that nitric acid can drive with a Formatted: Font: 12 pt
given pair 36 parts of electr with an intensity of 55 muriatic 29 parts & sulphuric 20 Formatted: Font: 12 pt
parts with the same intensity Hence of these three acids nitric acid is the most powerful
for it can drive a given quantity from a given surface with a high intensity than either of Commented [VK4]: Higher?
the other two. Formatted: Font: 12 pt
Jan 14. Repeated the concluding exp of last table
205} 0707 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

35} Commented [VK5]: Put curly bracket after all numbers


like this for consistency
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265} 1320 added 1 dr. of nitric acid
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35} Formatted: Font: 9 pt
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so that the addition of nitric to muriatic acid lowers the tension
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Then to understand the effect of nitrosuphuric acid I began with pure water and Formatted: Font: 9 pt
added known measures of sulp & nitric acids alternately Formatted: Font: 12 pt

dr. Sulp ac. 23} .5652 Formatted: Font: 12 pt


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13}

nitr. 53} .5094

27}

1 dr. Sulp ac. 72} .3888

28}

nitr ac. 94} .3510 Commented [VK6]: More missing decimal points

33}

2 dr. Sulp ac. 178} .2360

42}

nitr ac.. 170} .2530

43}

Now on comparing this table with that for pure sulp acid it will appear that when from Formatted: Font: 12 pt
the same surface 55 parts were presented by sulp acid the 27 wire carried only 21 But Formatted: Font: 12 pt, Underline
with nitrosulp acid of 53 parts 27 passed Again of 72 parts in both cases 22 were carried Formatted: Font: 12 pt
by sulp acid & 28 by nitrosulp etc etc the same observations being conducted
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Sulphate of Copper Formatted: Font: 12 pt, Underline

33}.8181

27}

74}.6081

45}

116}.4741 10633}.4717

55} 50}

the last exp. I cannot certainly rely on for the needle would not give results twice alike as Formatted: Font: 12 pt
appears on the repetition this was probably due to the metallic deposit which took place Commented [VK7]: Note that this word is split between
upon the zinc and which was very copious & flocculent lines
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It appears however that sulphate of copper give the most intense current yet tried
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as appears from the following synopsis
Sulp cop 33 . 27| 74 . 45| 116 . 55 Commented [VK8]: What are these marks?

Nitric ac 36 . 20| . | 175 . 42 Formatted: Font: 9 pt


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Mur ac 34 . 17| 82 . 26| 145 . 31
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Sulp ac 39 . 17| 72 . 22| 118 . 26
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Nitro Sulp ac . | 72 . 28| 178 . 42 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

Jan 15. So on making use of the these different agents it would appear that they can Formatted: Font: 12 pt
generate currents of electricity equal in point of quantity but variable in point of intensity
from the same surface in the following order Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Sulphate of Copper Formatted: Indent: Left: 2"

Nitric acid

Nitrosulphuric acid

Muriatic acid

Sulphuric acid
Now on reviewing this table it would seem that the immediate reason of this rise in Formatted: Font: 12 pt
tension is to be traced to the circumstance that these bodies furnish oxygen to the nascent
hydrogen and if the tension of the current is made to depend on the tendency of zinc and
oxygen to unite it is reasonable to suppose that that tension would rise if a new affinity
were introduced the action of which should correspond with and abet that of the zinc for Commented [VK9]: I added this skipped line
oxygen This we do when nitric acid or a salt easily decomposable is added to the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
solution. the particle of hydrogen no longer is directly evolved but meeting with oxygen Formatted: Font: 12 pt
almost in a free state unites at once with it The tension of the current is no longer
determined by the affinity of zinc for oxygen but also by the difference of the affinity of
hydrogen for oxygen subtracted from the affinity of oxygen for the electropositive body
in unison with which it is presented Thus
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let p represent the affinity of oxygen for hydrogen m the affinity of hydrogen for zinc n Formatted: Font: 12 pt
the affinity of oxygen for zinc and x the tension of the current in thise ordinary battery Formatted: Font: 12 pt
then

x = n p - m.

Suppose now sulphate of copper be added new affinities ore brought in play let r be the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
affinity of copper for oxygen s the affinity of hydrogen for copper then if the foregoing
equation represented the action of the zinc plate the action the copper under these new
conditions will be

X = p r s

And the total current will have an intensity represented by the sums of these equations [?]

(X + x) = n m r s. Commented [VK10]: Added this skipped line but not


sure what some of it says
But for all ordinary purposes m and s may be neglected they being exceedingly small in Formatted: Font: 11 pt, Italic
comparison with n & r we may therefore assume the new current to be represented in
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intensity by

(x + x) = n r Formatted: Indent: First line: 0.5"

Or in other words its tension is determined by the difference of the affinities of zinc and Formatted: Font: 12 pt
copper for oxygen and its tension is higher than the ordinary current in proportion as Formatted: Font: 12 pt

nr> np

I have examined the action that ensues when red oxide of lead is added to the existing [?] Formatted: Font: 12 pt
sulphuric acid using 2drs of sup acid & 34 oz water it gave

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original
22?}
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2 60} .4166 added red lead & kept constantly stirring

25}
3 59} repeated no 1

23}

probably the last result is due to deposit of lead on the zinc plate It may be observed Formatted: Font: 12 pt
from thet eh foregoing tables in corroboration of the view I here take that the tension Formatted: Font: 12 pt
given by sulphate of copper is almost exactly double of that given by sulphuric acid

Sulp cop 33 . 27 sulp ac. 33 . 14 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

74 . 45 74 . 22 Formatted: Indent: Left: 1", First line: 0.5"


Formatted: Font: 9 pt
116 . 55 118 . 26
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(a) Sulp acid diluted cannot decompose water though it will decomp. Iodide of potassium Formatted: Font: 12 pt

(b) Strong sulp ac being in contact with the platina & common salt sol. with the zinc I
could not succeed in effecting the decomp of water owing [to] the mutual reaction of the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
fluids

(c) Nitric acid on the platina salt sol zinc decompos. eEnsured Formatted: Font: 12 pt

The true action of sulphate of copper & nitric acid & metallic peroxide consists therefore
in the fact that without them

x = n +s - p m r and with them

x = n r

The leading quantity which has disappeared is therefore (p) the affinity of oxygen and Formatted: Font: 12 pt
hydrogen for each other and the current will now express by its intensity the affinity of
zinc for oxygen minus the affinity of copper for oxygen Such a current therefore may
readily fail to decompose water

Let w represent the affinity of zinc from water oxygen Can the tension of any
arrangement in which water and zinc are the electromotors ever rise higher than w It is
obvious we may reduce the tension ad infinitum by conducting off electricity freely and
therefore enabling the zinc & oxygen to satisfy their affinity But on the other hand the
tension never can rise higher than w by obstructing the current and hence the limit of
Henrys coil but in the most perfect arrangement that we possess there is a limit and no
battery that we possess will decompose water except under the condition w - r > p Formatted: Font: 12 pt

If we were to exterminate r the tension of the resulting current ought to become Formatted: Font: 12 pt
very high and this it appeared might be nearly effected by making use of a platina plate
instead of copper I have therefore this evening made the trial but in the very outset met
with a circumstance for which I was unprepared for it appeared that a system of copper
and zinc could give out far more electricity than zinc and platina but the latter was
immensely more intense I therefore executed the measures carefully. Having
amalgamated a strip of zinc an inch wide and nine inches long I prepared a corresponding
plate of copper & also one of platina and in the trials fixed them at an invariable distance
from each other and in the same solution
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(a) pair Pair Copper & Zinc 172} 1860 Formatted: Font: 12 pt
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32}
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(b) Pair Platina & Zinc 32} 5625. Formatted: Font: 12 pt

18} Formatted: Font: 12 pt


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Now the first thing to be observed is that (a) gives out more than five time as much Formatted: Font: 12 pt
electricity ad as (b) no other reason can be given for this than t he high conducting power Formatted: Font: 12 pt
of the copper Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Secondly if the platina acted simply as an obstacle the tension ought to have risen Formatted: Font: 12 pt

just to the same point as though the solution had been diluted when (a) was used down [?] Commented [KV12]: I think this word starts with a d
to the point that only 32 could be evolved but inspecting [?] the table for sulphuric acid it based on other instances but its hard to read

would seem not more than 13 should have passed there is therefore a clear gain of 5 Formatted: Font: 12 pt

But how comes it to pass that the platina plate evolves so little Does conducting
power of the metals enter into the matter will not this explain the action of Wollastons
double coppers where the bottom of the zinc being cut off the quantity is vastly
increased by diminishing the resistance to tis motion Commented [VK13]: Not sure about this word
Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Jan 16th [1839] Formatted: Font: 12 pt

To determine whether the nonconducting action of platinum affected the foregoing case I
passed the current from the copper this morning and found

Copper Pair 155} 2129 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

33}

then having put a pair of boxes on the ends of the platina I sent the current foregoing Formatted: Font: 12 pt
through it Formatted: Font: 12 pt

150} Formatted: Font: 9 pt

33}
therefore the platina did not arrest on fifteenth part of the who current and as the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
circumstances under which is was now placed were twice as unfavorable as those in the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
the first experiment we therefore conclude that the great deficit of quantity is not due to
the non conducting power for that ought not to have lowered it more than thee 5/100 part Formatted: Font: 12 pt
but to some other unknown cause
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It would seem that this peculiarity is entirely due the accumulation of gas on the platina Formatted: Font: 12 pt
plate screening it For on making use of the very same plates and brushing the platina
continually with a feather there was no sort of difficulty in getting deviations of higher
sort as follows.
90}.2777 Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"

25} Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"

100}.2700 Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"

27} Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"

Copper gives off swarms of small bubbles & presents a surface continually clear. Platina Formatted: Font: 12 pt
has them adhering to it & protecting it

Jan 17th. I have made today some unsatisfactory attempts to determine directly the
action of nitric acid by the use of the magnetic needle and voltameter conjointly the
results obtained would afford no conclusion and yet it is absolutely necessary that the
relation of the hydrogen should be determined Faraday says on decomposing sulphuric
acid diluted a quantity of oxygen disappears Binks that when numerous alternations are
employed the hydrogen lessens in amount at least one third the study of these actions is
of the utmost importance

Jan 18 Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Friday I succeeded to day perfectly with the foregoing by measuring the hydrogen
evolved and comparing it with the zinc dissolved taking two tubes one filled to a given
mark to serve as an areometer and producing gas to the corresponding mark by the
voltameter I began by adding sulp acid to water & when the results were obtained
commenced adding nitric as follows
Water Sulp acid Nitric acid Zinc dissolved Formatted: Font: 9 pt

In the water in the water in grains Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"


Formatted: Font: 9 pt
6 oz 1 dr 0 1.79

1.82

4 dr 0 1.75
8 dr 0 1.84

8 1 dr 2.25

8 2 3.00

subsequently I found that the gas evolved would burn with a greenish white flame and Formatted: Font: 12 pt
probably contained binoxide of nitrogen. So the hydrogen instead of being evolved Formatted: Font: 12 pt
abstracted 2 g of oxygen from the nitric acid fully
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confirming my supposition Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Nitric acid therefore increases the tension of the current by presenting a new
affinity for hydrogen that otherwise would be evolved upon the platina plate

Jan 19th I have today been attempting the measure by Voltas method taking a number of
pair each one communicating with the next by a mercury cup
No 1 24 20}.3500 Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"

7 7}

2 31 31} .5806

18 18}

3 43 43} 5814 water does not decompose

25 25}

4 50 51} 6214 water decomposes slowly

31 32}

5 49 52} 6346 freely

32 33}

It is to be observed that the grand increase of intensity takes place on the addition of the Formatted: Font: 12 pt
second and again on the fourth plate the successive measure are as follows
2 | 2300 | Second differences

3 | 2314 | 14

4 | 2774 | 460
5 | 2846 | 72

here it is to be observed that the fifth increase is five times as much as the second third Formatted: Font: 12 pt
and the second five times as much as the fourth

M 21st. The great irregularities observed in the foregoing method are due to imperfections
in the instrumental arrangement which it is almost impossible to avoid But Voltas
method like Henrys Hares and all other methods distinctively shew that there is no known
method of increasing the tension save at the sacrifice of quantity and the most prominent
question to be settled is the law under which this takes place

I shall make the attempt with Daniels constant battery and shall first endeavour to Formatted: Font: 12 pt
ascertain the state of the current as it flows along the wires which I use.

2nd Lenz law of the conductibility of wires Formatted: Font: 12 pt

3rd rise of tension on putting on different wires. Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Firstly as respects the action of the instrument and its wire I passed the current through a
long wire 1/5 in diameter
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[Tthe lower half of this page crossed out, beginning with To determine]

of the same that I used for pole wire and feet long the deviation of the needle Formatted: Font: 12 pt
was the same 47.50 degrees whether it came through the long wire or not. Therefore I
assume that for in all the ensuring trials the pole wires transmitted all that the battery
could generate.

Investigation of Lenzs Law in the case of Formatted: Font: 12 pt

Copper Iron Wire.

No 1 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

Battery Current Cal Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"

77. 78.12

Length of wire in feet | Calcul.| Deviations Loss.

84 constant 2981 | 25.50 | 23.50 53.50 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

72 x=1274 2572 | 27.30 | 26 51

60 2159 | 30.56 | 29 48 Commented [VK14]: This might be a 4

48 1513 | 35.06 | 35 42 Formatted: Font: 9 pt


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24 854 | 48.50 | 47 30
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12 392 | 60 | 60 17
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6 196 | 68 | 68 9. Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5", First line: 0.5"

This was fine copper wire one foot of which weighted grs it was spun with silk. Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"
Formatted: Font: 12 pt

To determine whether the wires being coiled as spiral had any disturbance
impressed on them by the coiling I took the wire 48 feet long it gave a deviation of 35.
Then I coiled it round a card, so as to make 155 circumvolutions but the deviation as still
35.

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No 2. Battery Current 92} Tension Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"
53} .5760

Length in feet Deviation Tension Loss Formatted: Font: 9 pt

6 78} .6025 14 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

47}

12 65} .6461 27

42}

24 52} .6923 40

36}

36 42} .7381 50

31}

48 here the B current was found 90 34.50} .7823 55.50 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

27}

60 31} .7742 59

24}

72 27} .7963 63

21.50}

84 23.50} .8510 66.50

20}

Battery current at the close. 90} .5777 Commented [VK16]: There is something underneath
this in the original but I cant read it
52}
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Now as respects this table the first thing we have to observe is that the conducting power Formatted: Font: 12 pt
of wire does not follow the law of Lenz. For the loss on a wire three times the length of
the first not triple etc. etc.

The explanation of this is very simple as the quantity is stopped the tension rises
and therefore the source of electricity is in a perpetual state of mutation although it is a
constant battery As the tension rises more electricity relatively is enabled to pass the
wire And for this reason alone all experiments have failed to detect the true law of the
conductibility of wires.

But from the foregoing one can also deduce the Law of Electric tension The
original Quantity is 92. The half of which is 46 and the fourth thereof 23. Of the first
and last of these numbers the very nearly the intensity tension has is gotten by
observation the intensity tension of the second may be approximately determined from
the mean tension of the third and fourth they stand thus
Quantity Tension Formatted: Font: 9 pt
92 .5769 Difference Commented [VK18]: I think this is a 0

46 .7152 1392 Formatted: Font: 9 pt


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23 .8510 2750
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of these differences the first is half the second and is produced by the loss of half the Formatted: Font: 9 pt
quantity lost in the second going to shew
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That the tension or Elastic force of a given Quantity of electricity is inversely as


its volume Jan 21st 1839.

No 3. Battery current 82} 5853 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

48} Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"

Length in feet Deviation Tension Loss.

36 40} .7312 42

29.25}

90 20.50} .8414 61.50


17.25}

200 10.25} .9024 71.75

9.25}
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No 4. Battery current 70} 6444 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

45} Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"

Length in feet Deviation Tension Loss. Formatted: Font: 9 pt


36 37} .7567 33 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

28}

90 21} .8572 49

18}

200 11.50} .9132 58.50 Formatted: Font: 9 pt

10.50} Formatted: Font: 9 pt

by the time the second observation was executed the battery current was found to have Formatted: Font: 12 pt
declined to 69.

Jan 24th From the foregoing tables it will appear that the law supposed to exist in the
preceding page in relation to the ratio of Quantity and intensity does not in reality apply

I have vainly tried to find other laws which might reach the case No 3 & No 4 would
give results not far from those calculated by assuming that the increase of tension was
inversely as the square roots of the quantities disappearing. But a former table on the
Thermal electricity by reduplicated numbers would give results very different from those
calculated Hence I am constrained to suppose that there is not constant law that can be
detected in the case.

But here a very remarkable analogy may be traced Lane, Harris, and a great
many other observers have shewn that the tension of electricity from the common
machine compared with the quantity follows the law which is followed under analogous
circumstances by ponderable elastic fluids viz that their tension of a given quantity is
inversely as its volume but the foregoing tables prove that this law is widely departed
from in the case of that low tension developed by a single pair of plates no regular rule
whatever being followed And the very same thing happens in the case of the ponderable
elastic fluids which as they approach the point of liquefaction under seven pressures no
longer follow Marriotes Law Were we to regard electricity as a vapour given off from a
fluid generated as it were and arising from the surface of the zinc plate and expanding
into the wire as into a resisting medium we should find that with laws which under that
supposition ought to have place really do have place
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In the hope of finding a corroboration for all the foregoing measures of intensity I have Formatted: Font: 12 pt
been attempting to pass the discharge in a torricellian void from an iron wire to the
mercurial surface It was very small & so far as I could see did not strike at an
observably greater distance than in atmospheric air The thermal current from pallad &
platina gave no light

March 25th Let us examine more minutely the conditions of the action of a conducting
wire by following out the reasoning of Lenzs paper.

1st The resistance of a wire is inversely proportional to its conductibility

2nd The (force of current) intensity is as the electromotive power directly and the
resistance of the entire circuit inversely

3rd The intensity therefore is as the electromotive power directly and the sum of the
resistances of the connecting wire and the battery inversely

4th The resistance of any wire is as the electrom. power directly the intensity inversely
minus the resistance of the battery

Now the electromotive power of any pair is obviously the product of the quantity that
pair can generate and its tension Therefore

F = q t / C + that is

The intensity for any given wire is as the quantity & tension of the electromotive source Formatted: Font: 12 pt
directly and the sum of the resistances of the electrom. & given wire inversely

26th In the method which I have been employing to measure the tension two currents are
to be compared together it is therefore essentially a relative method and to effect this
they are mutually compared with a third thus
b/a : c/a : d/a etc = t : t : t etc Formatted: Font: 9 pt

now these may be written Formatted: Font: 12 pt


A/C A/C+ A/C+ 1 A/C+ 2 . . . = t : t : t

a/b : a/c : a/d . . . = t : t : t

which may be written Formatted: Font: 12 pt

A A A Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.5"


___________ : _________ : __________ . . . . . . . = t : t : t
C+ +k C+ +k C+ +k
___________ __________ __________
A A A
_________ _________ ________
C+ C+ 1 C+ 2

the principle on which my calculations have proceeded is that Formatted: Font: 12 pt


a/b = t/1
on that the principle of the quotient of the right left hand member is the amount per cent Formatted: Font: 12 pt
of the current that could pass a secondary wire.

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