Volta potential difference

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• Volta potential — (also called Volta potential difference, or contact potential difference, or outer potential difference, Δψ, delta psi) in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points ( 1 and 2 ) in the vacuum: point 1 close to the… …   Wikipedia

• Volta , Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio — (1745–1827) Italian physicist Volta, who was born at Como in Italy, grew up in an atmosphere of aristocratic religiosity with almost all his male relations becoming priests. However, Volta decided early that his life s work lay in the study of… …   Scientists

• Potential — *The mathematical study of potentials is known as potential theory; it is the study of harmonic functions on manifolds. This mathematical formulation arises from the fact that, in physics, the scalar potential is irrotational, and thus has a… …   Wikipedia

• Absolute electrode potential — Absolute electrode potential, in electrochemistry, according to an IUPAC definition [ [http://goldbook.iupac.org/A00022.html IUPAC Gold Book absolute electrode potential ] ] , is the electrode potential of a metal measured with respect to a… …   Wikipedia

• Contact potential — may refer to: Contact electrification Galvani potential difference (in electrochemistry, at a junction of two metals) Volta potential difference (in electrochemistry, between two points in vacuum near surfaces of two metals in contact) This… …   Wikipedia

• volta effect — ˈvōltə , ˈvältə noun Usage: usually capitalized V Etymology: after Alessandro Volta died 1827 Italian physicist : the difference of potential observable between two dissimilar metals when placed in contact with one metal becoming positive and the …   Useful english dictionary

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• Galvani potential — (also called Galvani potential difference, or inner potential difference, Δφ, delta phi) in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points in the bulk of two phases [ [http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/G02574.pdf IUPAC Gold …   Wikipedia

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• Alessandro Volta — For the concept car, see Toyota Alessandro Volta. Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta Born …   Wikipedia

• Action potential — In physiology, an action potential is a short lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a consistent trajectory. Action potentials occur in several types of animal cells, called… …   Wikipedia