Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The science of the interaction or interconversion of electric and chemical phenomena.
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- n. the science of the chemistry associated with the flow of electricity, especially at the surface of an electrode
Etymologies
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I felt I should be an expert in electrochemistry, stochastic processes, linear systems theory, and many more subjects.
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Nernst's early studies in electrochemistry were inspired by
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Davy pioneered electrochemistry, but is best known for inventing the Davy safety lamp for miners.
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Prenatal life and the responsiveness of care in the first year are looking increasingly critical in establishing the baseline levels of a child's normal electrochemistry and its subsequent reactivity to stress.
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Faraday was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
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Michael Faraday overcame such drawbacks as an unfamiliarity with calculus to ask questions that led him to a revolutionary understanding of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
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Joliot obtained his Doctor of Science degree in 1930, having prepared a thesis on the electrochemistry of radio-elements, and became lecturer in the Paris Faculty of Science in 1935.
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Like Davy he became an accomplished experimenter in the field of electrochemistry, but Berzelius's mind was much more systematic than Davy's: he was given to running programs of hundreds of experiments and then deriving organized generalizations from them.
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Its an amazing team that beings together knowledge of electrochemistry, catalysts, membranes, and balance of plants to work on a battery called a "flow battery".
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The APS also recommends a thorough review of the technological potential for a range of battery chemistries and a significant increase in R&D in basic electrochemistry.
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