| 单词 | voltaic pile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvoltaic pile 1. Of apparatus: Used in producing electricity by chemical action after the method discovered by Volta; esp. voltaic battery (battery n. 10), voltaic pile (pile n.6 3). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > used in production voltaic1812 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] electric battery1774 pile1800 battery1801 trough1806 voltaic battery1812 voltaic pile1812 magnetomotor1823 trough battery1841 gas battery1843 gravity battery1870 sand-battery1873 Bunsen battery1879 gravitation battery1883 magazine batterya1884 perfluent batterya1884 (a) (b)1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 275 The Voltaic pile, as well as the battery last described, are now but little used.1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. iii. 97 To Volta's experiments we are indebted for the first galvanic instrument, namely, the voltaic pile; it was described by him in the Philosophical Transactions of 1800.1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 352 After the discovery of the voltaic pile the use of the electrical machine gradually fell into disuse.(c)1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 54 Without the Voltaic apparatus, there was no possibility of examining the relations of electrical polarities to chemical attractions.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 460 Voltaic arrangements, consisting of a few large plates rather than many small ones.1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 57 In a voltaic cell, an energy is gendered and transmitted along a wire with inconceivable rapidity.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 930/2 A voltaic pencil, by the use of which designers and draughtsmen may be enabled to dispense entirely with the aid of the engraver.1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 36 It has been shewn by experiments made by means of the Voltaic battery..that compound bodies in general are capable of being decomposed by electrical powers. 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 81 A voltaic battery, which consists usually of alternations of two metals, and a liquid capable of acting chemically upon one of them,..is incapable of acting. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 1 When galvanism was discovered, at the beginning of the present century, and the voltaic battery invented. < as lemmas |
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