Determination of the value of the faraday with a silver-perchloric acid coulometer
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TL;DR
An accurate value of the faraday has been determined by the electrolytic dissolution of metallic silver in aqueous solutions of perchloric acid, using standards of electric current, mass, and time as maintained by the National Bureau of Standards.
Abstract
This value may be used in an alternate method of defining the ampere in absolute value, namely, that steady current which will dissolve 1.117972 milligrams of silver per second and depends only on the standards of mass and time. The indicated uncertainties are overall limits of error based on 95 percent confidence limits for the mean and allowances for the effects of known sources of possible systematic error.