What's the difference between voltaic and voltan?

Voltaic


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  • (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.

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  • (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.

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