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db

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Jan 6, 2024, 7:22:19 AMJan 6
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I am reading some old papers from around 1900, in German,
and several titles use the word "Reststrom", where would
now use "Strom", that is, current.

Does anyone here know why those authors used that word?
Why "Rest" (same meaning as the English "rest" or
"residual")?
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Dieter Britz

Ian

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Jan 6, 2024, 12:56:13 PMJan 6
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Patterson's "German-English Dictionary for Chemists" gives "residual
current" for "reststrom"

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db

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Jan 13, 2024, 7:17:44 AMJan 13
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I found out that many of those old studies expected a steady state
current, which they called Reststrom or residual current.
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Dieter Britz

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