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Definition of Galvanic cell

1. Noun. An electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy; cannot be recharged.

Medical Definition of Galvanic cell

1. See voltaic cell (09 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galvanic Cell

Literary usage of Galvanic cell

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

1. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"By JA FLEMING, B.Sc., FCS The contest that has for so long been waged between the supporters of the two theories of the galvanic cell, the contact and the ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It is perhaps necessary to observe that the electrolytic reactions taking place in a galvanic cell which generate» a current are in every way identical with ..."

3. Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by George Carey Foster, Alfred William Porter, Jules François Joubert (1909)
"The difference of potentials between the wires of a galvanic cell depends only on the ... If placed on an insulating stand, a galvanic cell may be strongly ..."

4. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"galvanic cell. 33.] The production of a current by a cell is the reverse process to the decomposition of an electrolyte by a current ; in the latter ..."

5. An Outline of the Theory of Thermodynamics by Edgar Buckingham (1900)
"CHAPTER XIII APPLICATIONS Electromotive Force of a Reversible galvanic cell 161. We have already (arts. 135 and 136) obtained a relation between the ..."

6. An Outline of the Theory of Thermodynamics by Edgar Buckingham (1900)
"CHAPTER XIII APPLICATIONS Electromotive Force of a Reversible galvanic cell 161. We have already (arts. ..."

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