voltaic battery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic battery
First recorded in 1805–15
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What is here said regarding the voltaic battery is equally true of magneto-electric machines.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
It is thus burnt when acidulated water is poured over it; it is also thus burnt in the voltaic battery.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The prevalent views regarding acids and bases were greatly strengthened by the earlier researches of Sir Humphry Davy, in which he employed the voltaic battery as an instrument in chemical investigation.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
They brought Angélique into contact with a voltaic battery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
Zincode, zing′kōd, n. the negative pole of a voltaic battery: the anode of an electrolytic cell.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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