volta-electric

Adjective

volta-electric (not comparable)

1. (dated) Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
   • The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampere’s theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; […]...1831 November 24, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, published 1832, pages 138–39
   • In these equations v₁, v₂, … v₂₁ denote the volta-electric differences from copper which must be given to part 1, part 2, … part 21 of the surface of the molecule in order that the 21 piezo-electric and pyro-electric coefficients may have their given values […]1893, Lord Kelvin, “On the Theory of Pyro-electricity and Piezo-electricity of Crystals”, in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 36, number 222...

   Synonyms:

   voltaic