Voltameter Definition

vōl-tămmĭ-tər
noun
A coulometer.
American Heritage
An electrolytic cell that measures the quantity of electric charge flowing through it by a resulting chemical action, as by indicating the amount of gas collected or the amount of metal deposited on an electrode.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Voltameter

Noun

Singular:
voltameter
Plural:
voltameters

Origin of Voltameter

  • volta(ic) meter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Voltameter Sentence Examples

  • A convenient adjunct to this apparatus is a small voltameter, with the aid of which oxygen or hydrogen.

  • The Duration Of An Experiment Was About Ten Minutes, And The Product Of The Mean Current And The Time, Namely Ct, Was Measured By The Weight Of Silver Deposited In A Voltameter, Which Amounted To About 0.56 Gramme.

  • His most important contribution at this date was the invention of the voltameter and his enunciation of the laws of electrolysis.

  • The voltameter provided a means of measuring quantity of electricity, and in the hands of Faraday and his successors became an appliance of fundamental importance.

  • Davy on the decomposition of the solutions of salts by the voltaic current were turned to account in the water voltameter telegraph of Sdmmering and the modification of it proposed by Schweigger, and in a similar method proposed by Coxe, in which a solution of salts was substituted for water.

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