1) Electric eels 2) Electrostatic generator 3) Electrostatic machine 4) Van de graaff generator 5) Wimshurst machine
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An electrophorus is a simple manual capacitive generator used to produce electrostatic charge via the process of electrostatic induction. A first version of it was invented in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Carl Wilcke, but Italian scientist Alessandro Volta improved and popularized the device in 1775, and is sometimes erroneously credited with i...
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• (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.
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(from the article `Volta, Conte Alessandro`) In 1775 Volta`s interest in electricity led him to invent the electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity. He became professor of ...
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<physics> An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal. ... Origin: NL, fr. Combining form electro- + Gr. To bear. ... (04 Mar 1998) ...
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E·lec`troph'o·rus noun ;
plural - - Electrophori . [ New Latin , from combining form
electro- + Greek
fe`rein to bear.]
(Physics) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of re...
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[
n] - a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity 2. [n] - type genus of the family Electrophoridae
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electrophorus A device that produces electric charges from the friction between a disk and a metal plate.
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genus Electrophorus noun type genus of the family Electrophoridae; electric eels
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an instrument for generating static electricity by means of induction.
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