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Definition of Electromotive force 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 Force Series
Literary usage of Electromotive force series
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Electro-chemistry by Max Julius Louis Le Blanc (1907)
"[The following table gives the metals in the order of the contact electromotive
force series, together with the potential-difference between adjacent ..."
2. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechniques by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1904)
"CURVE OF INDUCED ELECTROMOTIVE-FORCE. series. A ring of battery cells united in
series, like Fig. 104, but having one-half the cells set so that the current ..."
3. A Text-book of Chemistry by Samuel Philip Sadtler, Virgil Coblentz (1900)
"Such a table is called the electromotive force series. * Potential, in the physical
sense, is that condition of matter by virtue of which il is capable of ..."
4. Laws of Physical Science: A Reference Book by Edwin Fitch Northrup (1917)
"... the specific inductive capacity K. (Thomson, Elements of Electricity and
Magnetism, p. 258.) ELECTROMOTIVE-FORCE SERIES. Two unlike metals when immersed ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"... indicates that a solution containing sulphate of copper (or a soluble salt of
any other metal beneath hydrogen in the electromotive-force series) tends ..."
6. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1906)
"... most troublesome impurity, existing as cuprous chloride in the chloride
solution, in which it lies close to antimony in the electromotive force series. ..."
7. Bi-monthly Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers by American Institute of Mining Engineers (1915)
"... indicates that a solution containing sulphate of copper (or a soluble salt of
any other metal beneath hydrogen in the electromotive-force series) tends ..."
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