voltaic battery

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. battery.

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Etymology

Origin of voltaic battery

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

Then, with a very large voltaic battery, a tremendous quantity of electricity could be poured into the atmosphere, and its electrical condition could be certainly disturbed.

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Before leaving Bristol he had commenced experiments on the chemical applications of the voltaic battery; these he at once followed up with the better apparatus now at his command.

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Electric Batteries From the time of Volta to the time of Faraday the only means of producing an electric current was the "voltaic battery," so called in honor of Volta.

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A voltaic battery furnished the current to conducting wires which led to two electric lamps on the mantel-piece of the drawing-room, and in which strips of platinum constituted the resisting and lighting medium.

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The placing of two or three pieces of metal one above another with a moist substance between them will create a voltaic battery.

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