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Definition of Electrolytic cell
1. Noun. A cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen).
Medical Definition of Electrolytic cell
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrolytic Cell
Literary usage of Electrolytic cell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The anode of the electrolytic cell is therefore always connected to the middle
... electrolytic cell ..."
2. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"An electrolytic cell. electrolytic cell.—(1) A cell or vessel containing an
electrolyte in which electrolysis is carried on. (2) A plating cell or vat. ..."
3. Electrical Review (1891)
"The electrolytic cell (F, in Fig. 1) which I used, consisted of a box formed of
strips of window glass cemented together with marine glue. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It follows, therefore, th»t the heat H which would be evolved in x ia the equivalent
of the whole energy given out in the electrolytic cell If therefore we ..."
5. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"If the cell, S, is discharged the transmitter may be considered as acting solely
by means of the battery, B, the counter EMF of the electrolytic cell ..."
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