How to Use voltaic in a Sentence

voltaic

adjective
  • Today, City Labs uses it for beta-voltaic batteries, heat sources, and future propulsion concepts.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • During the project, Avalanche will build degradation-resistant microchips that will be used in alpha-voltaic cells and eventually in fusion devices.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Humphry Davy later used a large voltaic pile to isolate a number of elements, including potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, and barium.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2026
  • On the roof, photo-voltaic panels, water tanks, and generators have been reimagined as functional sculptural objects by Belgian painter Pieter Vermeersch.
    — Siobhan Reid, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Just six weeks after Volta wrote to the Royal Society about his invention, the English scientists William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle used a voltaic pile to run a current through water to separate it into hydrogen and oxygen.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2026

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