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Voltaic

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action.  Synonym: galvanic.  "A voltaic (or galvanic) couple"



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"Voltaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... silver are said (p. 237) to "produce a taste resulting from the galvanic concussion, and not from any actual flavour." This is incorrect; zinc and silver produce a taste when in voltaic communication, because they decompose the saliva, and eliminate acid ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... Heathen's art, but only pilfer it; we cannot revive the Christian's art, but only galvanize it; we are, in the sum of us, not human artists at all, but mechanisms of conceited clay, masked in the furs and feathers of living creatures, and convulsed with voltaic spasms, in mockery ...
— Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture - Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 • John Ruskin


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