Definition of "zincoid" []

• Of, pertaining to, or resembling zinc (adjective)
• Of or pertaining to the zinc electrode that connects to a copper one in a voltaic cell (adjective)

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• "In order to show that normally speaking a stimulated wire becomes zincoid, and also to show once more the anomalies into which we may fall by adopting no more definite terminology than that of negative variation, I have devised the following experiment (fig.  51)."
• "The stimulated end of tin, say the end A, thus becomes zincoid, i.e. the current through the electrolyte (non-polarisable electrodes with interposed galvanometer) is from A to B, and _through the wire_, from the less stimulated B to the more stimulated A."
• "Whether the more excited was zincoid or cuproid depended on the substance and its molecular condition."