voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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Faraday now passes from terminology to research; he sees the necessity of quantitative determinations, and seeks to supply himself with a measure of voltaic electricity.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John
Many intelligent people have failed to apprehend the vast difference between the low tension of voltaic electricity and frictional electricity, lightning being in the nature of the latter.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
Acierage, coating a copper-plate with steel by voltaic electricity.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
Chemical decomposition.—The chemical action of voltaic electricity is characteristic of that agent, but not more characteristic than are the laws under which the bodies evolved by decomposition arrange themselves at the poles.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
What I mean is, that no electricity is evolved in any way, due or related to the causes which excite voltaic electricity, or proportionate to them.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
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