volta-electric

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.

Usage notes

 * In the study of electricity, chemically generated volta-electric phenomena were originally contrasted to ones that are magnetically generated or . This distinction is no longer seen as salient in modern physics, so the term volta-electric has fallen out of use. When specifying chemically-generated electricity, the terms or  may now be used instead.