(a.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chemo-electrical transducers are, in effect, minute voltaic cells--more precisely calcium-magnesium cells--with the magnesium electrodes on myosin heads and the calcium electrodes on the C subunits of troponin molecules associated with actin filaments.
(2) As the two are pulled towards each other, doing mechanical work, energy is supplied by the voltaic cells.
(3) Wuwei generates electricity for 3 yuan a kilowatt, more than 20 times cheaper than expected thanks to a sharp fall in the cost of photovoltaic cells.
(4) The electro-mechanical transducer utilises the electrostatic field established between the oppositely charged electrodes of the voltaic cell.
(5) The source of the electrostatic charges are assumed to be minute voltaic cells, one associated with every myosin head.
(6) During the rainy season of 1982 30 patients (29 european and 1 voltaic) presented with an intense dengue-like syndrome in Ouagadougou city.
(7) And because it is surrounded by a band of 60,000 photo-voltaic cells, the academy will use around a third less energy than the maximum allowed by San Francisco's strict laws.
(8) Alessandro Volta: inventor of the electrical pile | Charlotte Connelly Read more His voltaic pile, an early electric battery that produced a steady current, was developed in 1800 at a time when competing theories existed about how electricity was generated.