Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta.
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Examples for "pile "
Examples for "pile "
1 Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile .
2 There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3 The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4 Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5 One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
1 Oxidation the origin of the electric current in the voltaic pile
2 You assume the human body to be a voltaic pile , eh?
3 Grouped about his feet are a gear-wheel, voltaic pile , telegraph key, and telephone.
4 I had in my car a voltaic pile , consisting of sixty couples-silverand zinc.
5 But the voltaic pile was expensive and could be messy.
1 A series of simple experiments now embarked upon showed the behaviour of magnetised iron, as also of a galvanic pile or battery, to remain unaltered.
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