ELECTRODE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Electrode

... or melting position, while in Fig. 8 it is tilted for pouring. In melting, the electrodes first rest on the charge of material in the furnace. After the current is turned on they eat their way through, nearly to the bottom. By this time there is a pool of molten metal beneath the electrode and the charge is melted from the bottom up so that the roof is not exposed to the high temperature radiating from the open arc. The electrodes in this furnace are of graphite, 9 in. in diameter and the current consumed is about ...

— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... "The iodine ions have actually passed through the beef to the positive pole and the paper on the electrode. Here we ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve