volta-electric
English
Alternative forms
- voltaelectric
Adjective
volta-electric (not comparable)
- (physics, dated) Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
- Synonym: voltaic
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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 […]
- 1998, Iwan Rhys Morus, Frankenstein’s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, →ISBN, page 32:
- 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.
Usage notes
- In the study of electricity, chemically generated volta-electric phenomena were originally contrasted to ones that are magnetically generated or magneto-electric. This distinction is no longer seen as salient in modern physics, so the term volta-electric has fallen out of use. When specifying chemically-generated electricity, the terms chemoelectrical or electrochemical may now be used instead.
Further reading
- volta-electric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913