📚 Voltaic, adjective. 🔉 /vɒlˈteɪɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Relating to electricity produced by chemical action in a battery; galvanic. ❗️ Examples: 1. Alpha voltaic batteries use a radioisotope such as Americium, the substance commonly used in smoke detectors, coupled with a semiconductor device that acts like a solar cell to convert alpha energy into usable electricity. 2. The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells. 3. Because electrons originate at the anode in a voltaic cell, the anode has a (-) charge; electrons enter the cathode, which has a (+) charge. 4. Eventually, these hopes were fulfilled, and in 1863 Raoult gained a doctorate from the University of Paris, for a thesis on the electromotive force of voltaic cells. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic