Archive for the 'P-Palladium' Category

Jan-7th-2009

Pantelegraphy

A system of telegraphy for transmitting designs, maps, drawing, and the
like by telegraphy. (See Telegraphy, Facsimile.)

Jan-7th-2009

Pane, Luminous

A pane of glass, one side of which has pasted to it a long zigzag strip
of tinfoil. A design is made by cutting through the strip. On
discharging a Leyden jar or an electric machine through the strip sparks
appear where the tinfoil is severed, thus producing the design in a
luminous effect. Many variations can be employed [...]

Jan-7th-2009

Palladium

A metal of the platinum series. It has the highest power of occlusion,
q.v., of all metals. It is the characteristic ingredient of non-magnetic
watch alloys.
Palladium used as an electrode in the electrolysis of water will occlude
936 volumes of hydrogen, and the hydrogen-palladium alloy will exceed in
size the original electrode.

Jan-7th-2009

Page Effect

The sounds produced by magnetizing and demagnetizing a bar of iron or
steel; the magnetic tick. The sounds are strong enough to produce a
telephonic effect. (See Magnetic Tick.)

Jan-7th-2009

Paillard Alloys

Non-magnetic palladium alloys, invented by Paillard, of
Switzerland, used in anti-magnetic watches. The following are given as
the compositions of several such alloys:
I.                II. Palladium,  60 to 75   parts   50 to 75  parts Copper,     I5 to 25   “       20 to 30   “ Iron.        1 to 5    “       5 to 20   “
The following are more complex: [...]

Jan-7th-2009

Pacinotti Teeth

Projections on a cylindrical or drum armature, between which in the
grooves formed thereby, the wire is wound. The teeth being of iron tend
to diminish the reluctance or magnetic resistance of the interpolar
space, or interval between the poles of the field magnet.
Synonym–Pacinotti Projections.

Jan-7th-2009

Pacinotti’s Ring

A ring of iron wire wound with coils of insulated wire at right angles
to its circular axis, and used as the armature of a dynamo or motor. A
number of connections are taken from the coils to a central commutator.

If such a ring with its coils is rotated in a field, current can be
taken from points [...]

Jan-7th-2009

Pacinotti’s Inductor

The Pacinotti or Gramme Ring. (See Pacinotti’s Ring.)

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