What are the most ordinary effects produced by the developed electricity of a large galvanic battery?
The production of sparks and brilliant flashes of light, the heating and fusing of metals, the deflagration of gunpowder and other inflammable substances, and the decomposition of water, saline compounds, and metallic oxides.
How may the most splendid artificial light known be produced?
By fixing pieces of pointed charcoal or carbon to the wires connected with opposite poles of a powerful galvanic battery, and bringing them into contact.
What does this produce?
Electric light.
Can intense heat be developed by the action of the galvanic battery as well as intense light?
The greatest artificial heat man has yet succeeded in producing has been through the agency of the galvanic battery.
What refractory substances can be fused by the aid of the galvanic battery?
All the metals, including platinum, can be readily melted; quartz, sulphur, magnesia, slate and lime are liquefied; and the diamond fuses, boils, and becomes converted into coal.