electrochemicaladj.
/ᵻˌlɛktrəʊˈkɛmᵻkl/, U.S. /əˌlɛktroʊˈkɛmək(ə)l/, /əˌlɛktrəˈkɛmək(ə)l/, /iˌlɛktrəˈkɛmək(ə)l/, /iˌlɛktroʊˈkɛmək(ə)l/ Of or relating to electrochemistry; involving both electricity and chemistry.
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1808 H. Davy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 2 A laborious experimental application of the powers of electro-chemical analysis.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 193/2 Laws of..electro-chemical decomposition.
1901 Electrician 8 Nov. 107/2 The working rectifier is not a mere physical, but also an electro-chemical problem.
1948 Research 1 262/2 Corrosion is almost always an electrochemical process, in which the anodic localities of corrosion are small surface elements.
1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash xxxvi. 258 These deep structures eventually lead to the actual patterning of the cortex with its immensely ramified..network of electrochemical and neurophysiological channels.
2003 Guardian 12 Feb. ii. 18/4 The motor areas of the brain send electrochemical impulses to the skeletal muscles, causing the jolt sensation.
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electrochemical equivalent n. the mass of a substance deposited, liberated, or acted on during electrolysis by the passage of a standard quantity of electricity (spec. one coulomb).
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1834 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 112 Compound ions are not necessarily composed of electro-chemical equivalents of simple ions.
1918 T. B. Robertson Physical Chem. Proteins viii. 178 The possibility was thus indicated of estimating the electrochemical equivalent of casein.
1998 Inorganica Chimica Acta 270 149/1 The formation of hydrogen peroxide with consumption, in the initial stage, of precisely two electrochemical equivalents per mole of hydrogen peroxide produced and of the O2 consumed.
electrochemical series n. a series of elements arranged in order of their standard electrode potentials; also called electromotive series.
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1841 R. Kane Elements Chem. viii. 307 Any substance, near the middle of the electro-chemical series, may become positive or negative, according as it combines with a body situated nearer to the negative or positive extremity.
1922 H. S. Hatfield tr. H. Freundlich Colloid & Capillary Chem. 424 With the heavy metal kations there is further the circumstance that their adsorbability follows the electrochemical series.
1978 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context xiii. 189 The e.m.f. values give a quantitative record of the position of the metal in the electrochemical series.
Derivatives
eˌlectroˈchemically adv. by electrochemical means; as regards electrochemistry.
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1833 M. Faraday Diary 5 Apr. (1932) II. 58 Hence it is quite clear..that elements are electrochemically arranged.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 330 The quantities of these ions being electrochemically equivalent.
1946 Nature 19 Oct. 548/1 These advances led to the ‘ground’ mine, laid on the sea-bed, operated either magnetically, electro-chemically or acoustically.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Oct. iii. 17/1 Certain chemical compounds emit light when electrochemically stimulated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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