voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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The instrument offers the only actual measurer of voltaic electricity which we at present possess.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
Finally, the experiment was extended into the following form, supplying in this case the tidiest analogy between common and voltaic electricity.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
According to Dr. Davy60, the current deflected the needle and made magnets under the same law, as to direction, which governs currents of ordinary and voltaic electricity.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
Chemical decomposition.—The chemical action of voltaic electricity is characteristic of that agent, but not more characteristic than are the laws under which the bodies evolved by decomposition arrange themselves at the poles.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
I. We know that, by means of voltaic electricity or induction, we can crystallize a large number of substances.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
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