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Leyden Jar

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity It is coated with tin foil within and without nearly to its top and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating for the purpose of charging it with electricity It is so named from having been invented in Leyden Holland

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