voltaic

Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.

Producing electricity by chemical action.

Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist (1745-1827), who shares with Galvani the honor of having discovered the means of producing an electric current at the expense of chemical action upon one of two united plates of dissimilar metals.

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.

Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity

a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a powerful voltaic current.

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.

See under Circuit.

a single pair of the connected plates of a battery.