The Electro-static Method of Discriminating the Liquid Phase of Alloys. It has long been known from the experimental results obtained by former investigators that the water drops falling down from an orifice undergo a periodic deformation, together with the fact that the amalgamation or the separation of these dropswould take place by their electrification. Especially, with, regard to the aforesaid deformation of the drops, the functional relation of its frequency
v to the surface tension
T and to the volume
V (=
4/
3πα
03) of each drop, was theoretically deduced by Lord Rayleigh and others.
By way of collating and expatiating the results of these previous investigations, the present writer performed a calculation to find the influence of a definite amount of the electric charge
E carried by each drop of a given liquid) upon the periodic deformation, As the consequence of this calculation, it became clear, in thefirst place, that the frequency of the periodic deformation excuted by each drop, decreases, at the rate of
Δv/
v=
E2/
32πa30T due to the. electrification, when the amount of the electric charg
E is comparatively small. In such a stage of the electrification, the drops were inferred to have the more remarkable tendency to amalgamate with each other by the collision, the more they are electrified. But, it was also found, in the second place, that these drops usually tend to separate again more minutely than before, through the electrification increasing so large without giving rise to any electric discharge, as to be expressed by
E2_??_17.7a
03T. Moreover, the equilibrium of continuing the periodic deformation is confirmed to be completely violated, when the electric charge
E increases to an amount satisfying the condition
E2_??_50.3a
03T. Consequently, the permanent deformation or the separation of each drop should be inevitable, in the extreme case lastly mentioned.
The considerations above given, enables us to examine the surface' tensions of various liquids, least of all, of the melts of metals, by electrifying their drops. Accordingly, we may construct an arrangement following to these considerations, which will be available to the discrimination of the liquid phase of several alloys.
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