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hemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.

ting the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

al arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

terior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

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. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electri…

Engraved by a voltaic battary.

tain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is…

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

r dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructo…

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

rent 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.