Voltaic Pile

Definition: Voltaic Pile

Voltaic Pile

Noun

1. Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta.

Synonyms: Voltaic Pile

Synonyms: galvanic pile (n), pile (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Voltaic pile

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The Voltaic Pile was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800. He demonstrated that when certain metals and chemicals come into contact with each other they can produce an electrical current. He placed together several pairs of copper and zinc discs separated by paper soaked in salt water, and an electrical current was produced. This was the first chemical battery.

For his contributions to the study of electricity, the SI unit called the volt was named after Volta.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Voltaic pile."

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Crosswords: Voltaic Pile

English words defined with "voltaic pile": Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Count Alessandro Volta ♦ Dry pile ♦ galvanic pile ♦ Volta. (references)

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Anagrams: Voltaic Pile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-l-o-p-t-v"
	-2 letters: political.
	-3 letters: calliope, elliptic, illative, localite, locative, poetical, teocalli, villatic, volatile.
	-4 letters: aloetic, alveoli, aplitic, capitol, captive, ciliate, coalpit, collate, ectopia, optical, pelitic, pivotal, plicate, polecat, politic, topical, violate, vitelli, voltaic.
	-5 letters: active, alcove, aplite, atelic, atopic, avocet, callet, caplet, capote, citola, citole, clivia, coeval, coital, collet, collie, elicit, epical, illite, iolite, italic, locale.
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