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voltaic

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vol·ta·ic  (vl-tk, vl-, vôl-)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.
2. Producing electricity by chemical action.
[After Alessandro Count Volta.]
voltaic
Adjective
same as galvanic (sense 1)
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Noun1.Voltaic - a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
Gur
Niger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa
Adj.1.voltaicvoltaic - pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple"
galvanic
electricity - a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons


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Mazarin bounded in his bed as if he had been put in relation with a Leyden jar or a voltaic pile, at the same time that a surprise, or rather a manifest disappointment, inflamed his features with such a blaze of anger, that Louis XIV.
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Hereupon it was agreed to postpone the internal examination until the next evening; and we were about to separate for the present, when some one suggested an experiment or two with the Voltaic pile.
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