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Voltaic

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action.  Synonym: galvanic.  "A voltaic (or galvanic) couple"



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"Voltaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... their fleet, immense stores of provisions, ammunition, etc. (for from the explosions they did not appear to be short of it), and shall destroy the dockyard, forts, quays, barracks, storehouses, etc. For guns, Woolwich is a joke to it. The town is strewn with our shell and shot, etc. We have traced voltaic wires to nearly every powder magazine in the place. What plucky troops they were! When you hear the details of the siege you will be astonished. The length of the siege is nothing in comparison with our gain in having ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume I • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... investigate this much abused subject (as all of them might) they would soon find themselves hors de combat in relation to their premises that all manifestations of mind are nothing but products of matter. Huxley, for instance, that the "mind is a voltaic pile giving shocks of thought," and many other quotations equally as absurd by other materialistic philosophers (?) who claim prominence ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 - Volume 1, Number 12 • Various



Words linked to "Voltaic" :   Niger-Congo, voltaic cell, voltage, electricity, volt, galvanic



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