Electrify - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: electrifyElectrify
To communicate electricity to to charge with electricity as to electrify a jar...
Dielectric
Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction as in the phenomena of induction a nonconductor separating a body electrified by induction from the electrifying body...
Electrifiable
Capable of receiving electricity or of being charged with it...
Electrification
The act of electrifying or the state of being charged with electricity...
electroneutral
having no net electric charge not electrified uncharged neutral Opposite of charged...
Electro polar
Possessing electrical polarity positively electrified at one end or on one surface and negatively at the other said of a conductor...
Idioelectric
Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties capable of becoming electrified by friction opposed to anelectric...
Ion
an atom or goup of atoms radical carrying an electrical charge It is contrasted with neutral atoms or molecules and free radicals Certain compounds such as sodium chloride are composed of complementary ions in the solid crystalline as well as in solution Others notably acids such as hydrogen chloride may occur as neutral molecules in the pure liquid or gas forms and ionize almost completely in dilute aqueous solutions In solutions as in water ions are frequently bound non covalently with the molecules of solvent and in that case are said to be solvated According to the electrolytic dissociation theory the molecules of electrolytes are divided into ions by water and other solvents An ion consists of one or more atoms and carries one unit charges of electricity 34 x 10 10 electrostatic units or a multiple of this Those which are positively electrified hydrogen and the metals are called cations negative ions hydroxyl and acidic atoms or groups are called anions...
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