galvanic pile

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. voltaic pile.

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galvanic pile British  

noun

1. another name for voltaic pile

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Etymology

Origin of galvanic pile

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

Construction of the galvanic pile or battery, 101 102.

From A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. by Unknown, Various

The galvanic pile employed in this electroscope is that invented by Zamboni.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

If we burn the zinc under the boiler of a steam-engine, consequently in the oxygen of the air instead of the galvanic pile, we should produce steam, and by it a certain amount of force.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

A series of simple experiments now embarked upon showed the behaviour of magnetised iron, as also of a galvanic pile or battery, to remain unaltered.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie

By heat and by decomposition; the tourmalin; cats; galvanic pile; evaporation of water.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus