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Electrode   Listen
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Electrode  n.  (Elec.) A conducting object by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other non-metallic conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current. Note: Electrodes may be specially designed or made of a special material for particular purposes, as for example silver electrodes used in electroplating.





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"Electrode" Quotes from Famous Books



... begun fitting a curious little device to each of our forearms. It looked to me like an electrode consisting of large plates of German silver, covered with felt and saturated with salt solution. From each electrode wires ran across the floor to some ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... involuntarily. Her outflung hand had unwittingly gripped my wrist, caught the electrode there. The touch burned her, and close-circuited my robe. There was a hiss. My current burned out the ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various


Words linked to "Electrode" :   electron tube, emitter, control grid, electrolytic cell, cathode, grid, collector, base, anode


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