Word: cell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hell," until a mounted mine guard rode her down, seized her by the hand, dragged her along, broke her wrist. After that she only addressed mass meetings. One day she went to Trinidad Jail to see some of the I. W. W. organizers and the sheriff gave her a cell...
...mention Superintendent McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal prison." This last week's continuation of legal irrelevancies and digressions at last made some restive Chicago citizens rebuke the city's administration. A group of 29 civic organizations published a resolution: "Four or five sessions of this trial, occupying as many weeks, have now been held...
...Acid Cell. The usual type of storage cell contains sheets of spongy lead separated from sheets of spongy lead peroxide in a weak solution of sulphuric acid. During discharge, the acid forms sulphate of lead on both plates; during charge, lead and lead perioxide are again formed on their respective plates...
...Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
...Almeida Cell is neutral. The negative plate contains zinc crystals, the positive graphite mixed with silver. They rest in a solution of zinc chloride and zinc bromide. Batteries made up of these cells, said the inventor priest, are 93% efficient, whereas alkaline batteries are 50% efficient, acid batteries...