Definition of Selenium cell

1. Noun. A photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium.


Definition of Selenium cell

1. Noun. a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium as the electron source ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selenium Cell

selenic
selenic acid
selenide
selenides
seleniferous
seleninic
seleninic acid
selenio-
selenious
selenite
selenites
selenitian
selenitic
selenitical
selenium
selenium cell (current term)
selenium compounds
selenium deficiency
selenium excess
selenium poisoning
selenium radioisotopes
selenium sulfide
selenium transferase
seleniums
seleniuret
seleniureted
seleniurets
seleniuretted
seleniuretted hydrogen
seleno-

Literary usage of Selenium cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars by Caroline Ellen Furness (1915)
"The method proposed is to attach the selenium cell, in a closed case, to the end of the telescope, expose its surface to the light of a star, ..."

2. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"GROUND PLAN OF selenium cell APPARATUS INSTALLATION AND USE OF CELL: A selenium cell in the dark permits so large a current to pass that the resulting ..."

3. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"GROUND PLAN OF selenium cell APPARATUS INSTALLATION AND USE OF CELL: A selenium cell in the dark permits so large a current to pass that the resulting ..."

4. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"GROUND PLAN OF selenium cell APPARATUS INSTALLATION AND USE OF CELL: A selenium cell in the dark permits so large a current to pass that the resulting ..."

5. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"While these particular resistances apply only to a particular selenium cell, it is readily possible to apply this method to any selenium cell, ..."

6. Radium, and Other Radio-active Substances: Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium by William Joseph Hammer (1903)
"Manometric Acetylene Flame Transmitter with selenium cell, etc. ... and by means of this selenium cell, relay, battery and a motor starter, for which I am ..."

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