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Definition of "volta-electric" []

  • Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "volta-electric" in a sentence
  • "For the purpose of avoiding periphrasis, I propose to call this action of the current from the voltaic battery, _volta-electric induction_."
  • "The first is the case of volta-electric excitation, the other ordinary chemical affinity: but both are chemical actions and due to one force or principle."
  • "On combining a piece of litmus with a piece of turmeric paper, wetting both with solution of sulphate of soda, and putting the paper on the glass, so that _p_ was on the litmus and _n_ on the turmeric, a very few turns of the machine sufficed to show the evolution of acid at the former and alkali at the latter, exactly in the manner effected by a volta-electric current."