This is not surprising when we recollect that the first draft of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was drawn up with a view to neutralisation, according to the precedents afforded by the Suez Canal.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish
This oxygen then will unite with the hydrogen, as you see by the phenomena, and hear by the sound, with the utmost readiness of action, and all its powers are then taken up in its neutralisation of the qualities of the hydrogen.
"The Chemical History Of A Candle"
Michael Faraday
There may be a rising potential between the groups of ions until ultimately a point is attained when there is a spontaneous neutralisation.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly