Category:Voltaic

Vol*ta"ic, a. Etym: [cf. F. voltaïque, 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.