| 单词 | electric egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectric egg electric egg n. now historical a sealed glass vessel having a projecting electrode at each end, which can be evacuated in order to demonstrate electrical phenomena in gases at various pressures when one electrode is charged relative to the other. ΚΠ 1868 Q. Jrnl. Sci. 5 117 Electric discharge in vacuo, such as..an electric egg. 1995 G. V. Sutton Sci. for Polite Society viii. 319 The investigation of the electric egg, which came in response to the discovery of the Leyden jar, uncovered an important new chain of phenomena. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Oct. 56/1 I was hidden in a corner, reading a nineteenth-century book on electrostatics—reading, for some reason, about ‘electric eggs’—when a shadow fell across the page. < as lemmas |
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