gravity cell

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.

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gravity cell British  

noun

1. an electrolytic cell in which the electrodes lie in two different electrolytes, which are separated into two layers by the difference in their relative densities

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Example Sentences

The gravity cell is perhaps the most common type of cell wherein depolarization is affected by electro-chemical means.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster

This apparatus is good to work a gravity cell when it needs regulating.

From How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by St. John, Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew)

The gravity cell has until recently been extensively used in telegraphy, and continues in use in short-distance telegraphy and in automatic block signals.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

These are connected in series and the positive terminal binding-post on the storage cell is connected to the wire leading from the copper plate in the gravity cell.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

The voltage of a dry cell is approximately 1.5 volts, and the voltage of a voltaic cell and of a gravity cell is approximately 1 volt.

From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.