Definitions for: Voltaic


[n] a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
[adj] (electricity) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple"



Webster (1913) Definition: Vol*ta"ic, a. [Cf. F. volta["i]que, It. voltaico.]
1. Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised
apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical
action, and established this branch of electric science;
discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

2. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as,
voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.

Note: See the Note under Galvanism.

Voltaic arc, a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed
between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a
powerful voltaic current.

Voltaic battery, an apparatus variously constructed,
consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar
metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and
subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by
which a current of electricity is generated whenever the
two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a
conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4.
(b), and Note.

Voltaic circuit. See under Circuit.

Voltaic couple or element, a single pair of the connected
plates of a battery.

Voltaic electricity. See the Note under Electricity.

Voltaic pile, a kind of voltaic battery consisting of
alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by
moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile.

Voltaic protection of metals, the protection of a metal
exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or
acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal
which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or
coated with zinc.

Synonyms: galvanic, Gur

See Also: Niger-Congo

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