Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which depolarizes; specifically, in electricity, a substance used in a battery-cell for the purpose of preventing polarization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any substance added to the
electrolyte of abattery that produceshydrogen in order to combine with the liberated hydrogen and prevent the build up of pressure.
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Examples
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Katzenbach was once described by The New York Times as a "reconciler, a depolarizer, a common-denominator seeker ... a cooler downer."
The Real Cover-Up 2008
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Manganese dioxide is used to: manufacture ferroalloys; manufacture dry cell batteries (it's a depolarizer); to "decolorize" glass; to prepare some chemicals, like oxygen and chlorine; and to dry black paints.
Manganese 2007
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We designed a magnetic depolarizer, that looks like this, that you could have -- a lady, in her pocket book, and when you get an aura you can try it and see how it works.
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We designed a magnetic depolarizer, that looks like this, that you could have -- a lady, in her pocket book, and when you get an aura you can try it and see how it works.
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We designed a magnetic depolarizer, that looks like this, that you could have -- a lady, in her pocket book, and when you get an aura you can try it and see how it works.
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The arrangement of the pile, A, is kept secret, and all that we can say of it is that zinc and chloride of silver are employed as a depolarizer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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In other forms the carbon electrode has moulded with it the manganese depolarizer.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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As in the ordinary wet type of LeClanché cell, the purpose of the manganese is to act as a depolarizer; the carbon or graphite being added to give conductivity to the manganese and to form a large electrode surface.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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This absorption or combination of the hydrogen prevents immediate polarization, but hydrogen is evolved during the operation of the cell more rapidly than it can combine with [typo was 'wth'] the oxygen of the manganese, thereby leading to polarization more rapidly than the depolarizer can prevent it when the cell is heavily worked.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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Another chemical, a depolarizer, is needed to keep the carbon, which collects positive charges, from becoming coated with waste products as the zinc is oxidized.
Modern Mechanix 2008
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