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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta or his work.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Burkina Faso, previously known as Upper Volta
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Gur languages of Africa, from Niger-Congo family.

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Examples

  • Voltaic is moving away from virgin materials and into 100% post-consumer recycled PET plastic based fabrics (that come from recycled bottles).

    Voltaic Now Using Recycled Bottles in their Solar Bags | Inhabitat 2008

  • Volta's method of stacking round plates of copper and zinc separated by disks of cardboard moistened with salt solution was called a Voltaic pile.

    Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio 2009

  • Alessandro Volta developed the so-called Voltaic pile, a forerunner of the battery, which produced a steady electric current.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » People’s Names in Computing 2009

  • But in the year 1800, electricity in the form of a weak current was obtained by Volta of Italy in a very simple way; and even now our various electric batteries and cells are but a modification of that used by Volta and called a voltaic cell.

    General Science Bertha M. Clark

  • Volta actually made this battery, then known as the Voltaic Pile, but he made it because of Galvani's discovery.

    Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

  • If all you have are the. m2ts files, there is a third party app called Voltaic HD that will do the conversion.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • Bjork's "Voltaic" live concert film will be shown in Mpls. on June 24th

    Culture Bully 2009

  • Economic Zones World's Gazeley leases award-winning sustainable building 'Voltaic' to Howard Tenens

    AMEinfo.com Latest News 2010

  • The 39-year-old Scottish stud was seen fiddling with his Blackberry Pearl and carrying around his Puma "Voltaic" sneakers in black coffee-safari beige-spectra yellow ($74,

    Just Jared 2009

  • The 39-year-old Scottish stud was seen fiddling with his Blackberry Pearl and carrying around his Puma "Voltaic" sneakers in black coffee-safari beige-spectra yellow ($74,

    Just Jared 2009

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