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volta-electric en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (dated, not-comparable) Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
   • In these equations v₁, v₂, … v₂₁ denote the volta-electric differences from copper which must be given to part 1, part 2, … part 21 of the surface of the molecule in order that the 21 piezo-electric and pyro-electric coefficients may have their given values […] 1893, Lord Kelvin, “On the Theory of Pyro-electricity and Piezo-electricity of Crystals”, in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 36, number 222, page 459:
   • The first series of these researches, presented to the Royal Society on 24 November 1831, contained the first account of his discovery of voltaelectric and magnetoelectric induction. 1998, Iwan Rhys Morus, Frankenstein’s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, →ISBN, page 32:
   • The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampere’s theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; […] I propose to call the agency thus exerted by ordinary magnets, magneto-electric or magnelectric induction. 1831 November 24, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, published 1832, pages 138–39:

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voltaic