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The Use of Cuprous Oxide and other Rectifier Photo Cells in Submarine Photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. R. G. Atkins  and
H. H. Poole
W. R. G. Atkins
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory
H. H. Poole
Affiliation:
Registrar of the Royal Dublin Society
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1. Photo-electric cells of the rectifier type are useful for approximate measurements of light intensity, in air or under water, using a lowresistance galvanometer, the current through which may be reduced by a special shunt keeping the circuit resistance constant.

2. Such an arrangement has proved serviceable for shore work, a light gun-metal photometer, housing a cuprous oxide cell, having been carried about by a diver.

3. These rectifier cells can also be used at sea, but instead of the current, the E.M.F. is determined by means of the potentiometer outfit as used at sea in previous years.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , August 1933 , pp. 67 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1933

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