Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chemistry as concerned with electricity; the science which treats of the agency of electricity in effecting chemical changes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions
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Examples
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As a consequence, thoughts, emotions and moral issues can (though not always) become secondary considerations when they are believed to be mere byproducts of brain electro-chemistry.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? 2010
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As a consequence, thoughts, emotions and moral issues can (though not always) become secondary considerations when they are believed to be mere byproducts of brain electro-chemistry.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? D.O. Larry Malerba 2010
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Similarly, there are no processes in organisms that cannot be traced to electro-chemistry, but the unification of chemistry and biology is not still not yet known.
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By that time atomism had been extended from chemistry and the kinetic theory to offer explanations in stereochemistry, electro-chemistry, spectroscopy and so on.
Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century Chalmers, Alan 2005
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Einstein's law has become the basis of quantitative photo-chemistry in the same way as Faraday's law is the basis of electro-chemistry.
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Were it not a purely technical matter, it might be easily demonstrated, with our knowledge of electro-chemistry, that such an arrangement as an electric primary battery driving a car is an impossibility.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Galvani and Volta, followed in 1831 to 1857 by the magnificent discoveries of Faraday in electro-magnetism, electro-chemistry, and electro-optics, and no real improvement was made in influence machines till 1860, in which year Varley patented a form of machine shown in
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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He did not say so aloud, and no doubt it would have offended him had you accused him of believing it, but he believed it all the same, and his belief in it gave a muddy, bilious color to his view of German metaphysics, German electro-chemistry and the German chronology of Babylonian kings.
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This demonstration was the beginning of the very important science of electro-chemistry.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Now a wave of interest in organic chemistry swept over the chemical world, and soon the study of carbon compounds became as much the fashion as electro-chemistry had been in the, preceding generation.
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