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 Chapter III. Electromotive force between bodies in contact.  Art. 246. Volta's law of the contact force between different metals at the same temperature.

247. Effects of electrolytes

248. Thomson's voltaic current in which gravity performs the part of chemical action

249. Peltier's phenomenon. Deduction of the thermoelectric electromotive force at a junction

250. Seebeck's discovery of thermoelectric currents.

251. Magnus's law of a circuit of one metal

252. Cumming's discovery of thermoelectric inversions

253. Thomson's deductions from these facts, and discovery of the reversible thermal effects of electric currents in copper and in iron

254. Tait's law of the electromotive force of a thermoelectric pair  Chapter IV. Electrolysis 255. Faraday's law of electrochemical equivalents

256. Clausius's theory of molecular agitation

257. Electrolytic polarization

258. Test of an electrolyte by polarization

259. Difficulties in the theory of electrolysis

260. Molecular charges

261. Secondary actions observed in the electrodes

262. Conversation of energy in electrolysis

263. Measurement of chemical affinity as an electromotive force  Chapter V. Electrolytic polarization 264. Difficulties of applying Ohm's law to electrolytes.

265. Ohm's law nevertheless applicable

266. The effect of polarization distinguished from that of resistance

267. Polarization due to the presence of the ions at the electrodes. The ions not in a free state

268. Relation between the electromotive force of polarization and the states of the ions at the electrodes