half-cell

American  

[haf-sel, hahf-] / ˈhæfˌsɛl, ˈhɑf- /

noun

Electricity.

1. a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte.

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Etymology

Origin of half-cell

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The researchers stacked a perovskite solar cell and a silicon solar cell to create a dual-junction half-cell, providing an ideal base for the attachment of the cyanate-integrated perovskite solar cell.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

The PVPA-based cell also delivered almost twice the discharging capacity compared to the PAA-based cell after 200 cycles, with the PVPA-based half-cell achieving 1300 mAhg-1SiO after the same cycle count.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

The 1904 design used a porous clay pot to both contain one of the half-cell’s content and to serve as a salt bridge to the other half-cell.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

With a salt bridge, each half-cell remains electrically neutral and current can flow through the circuit.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

But either, alone, would have been but an incomplete and valueless thing, had it not become united with the complementary half-cell required to complete it structurally, and to engender and energise its potentialities.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella