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

Such arrangements are called gravity cells; but the separation is never perfect, the heavy liquid slowly diffusing upwards.57 Daniell Gravity Cell.—In this cell, shown in fig.

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

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My Dear Young Man: You will need several batteries when you come to set up your radio receiver but you won’t use such clumsy affairs as the gravity cell which I described in my last letter.

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

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The gravity cell is really a two-fluid cell in which the two liquids are kept separate by the joint action of the current and the force of gravity.

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