Michael Faraday, his Life and Works, 157 
' He shows that the transfer of the elements can only take place 
between bodies, the constituent parts of which have an aftinity 
for each other; and if these elements separate in a free state - 
against the surface of the metallic poles of the pile, this is be- 
Cause they cannot combine with the substance of these poles; 
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Seen, may serve as poles just as well as solid bodies, Faraday 
Jusily rejects the old idea of certain physicists who attributed 
electrochemical decompositions to the ord lectrical attrac. 
Passes into the liquid; therefore, to exclude any idea of elec- 
tothe 
chemical decomposition effected by electricity, reserving that — 
