voltaic

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This approach is called agrivoltaics — a portmanteau of agriculture and voltaic cells, which transform solar power to electrical power.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022

“I have just completed a curious voltaic pile which I think you would like to see,” he wrote.

From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2017

A battery is a multiple connection of voltaic cells, as shown in Figure 21.18.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The photo voltaic panels would make my house, which is over 300 years old, carbon negative.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2009

Faraday's next series of researches was devoted to the experimental proof of the identity of frictional and voltaic electricity.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William