voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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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
The accordance between it and voltaic electricity is in this respect complete.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
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
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
Hence it is evident that currents of voltaic electricity present phenomena of induction somewhat analogous to those produced by electricity of tension, although, as will be seen hereafter, many differences exist between them.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
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