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Definition of Electromotive series
1. Noun. A serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electromotive Series
Literary usage of Electromotive series
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Chemistry for Colleges by Alexander Smith (1916)
"This list is known as the electromotive series of the metals, because in electrolysis
of normal solu- ^ona of their salts, the electromotive force of the ..."
2. Elements of Electro-chemistry: Treated Experimentally by Robert Theodor Wilhelm Lüpke (1903)
"... the readiness to oxidise of the metals, and also their heats of ionisation (see
p. 72), lead to almost the same series. The electromotive series ..."
3. A Text-book of Electro-chemistry by Max Julius Louis Le Blanc (1907)
"THERMOELECTRIC CELLS — THE electromotive series In connection with the foregoing
a few words may well be devoted to thermoelectric cells. ..."
4. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"This is SERIES known as the electromotive series of the metals, Potassium f°r
... As stated by Smith " It must be noted that the electromotive series has no ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1899)
"... we might therefore conclude that chromium would immediately follow zinc at
the positive end of the electromotive series of metals. ..."
6. Foundations of Chemistry by Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard, Frank Bertram Wade (1914)
"CHAPTER XXVII THE electromotive series 345. Displacement of Hydrogen by Metals.
It has already been seen in the chapters on the Ionic Theory and on ..."
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