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- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
- Volta-electric - a. - Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
- Magnetomotor - n. - A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
- Depolarize - v. t. - To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
- Cathode - n. - The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
- Electro-motion - n. - The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
- Positive - n. - The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- Depolarizer - n. - A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
- Electro-magnetism - n. - The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
- Glyphography - n. - A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.
- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
- Thermovoltaic - a. - Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action.
- Rheophore - n. - One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
- Anelectrode - n. - The positive pole of a voltaic battery.
- Electro-gilding - n. - The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
- Voltameter - n. - An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
- Deflagrator - n. - A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
- Pile - n. - A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- Couple - a. - One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Rheophore - n. - A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
- Water battery - - A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
- Zincoid - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.
- Catelectrode - n. - The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.
- Electro-gilt - a. - Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
- Chemiglyphic - a. - Engraved by a voltaic battery.