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ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SERIES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does electromotive force series mean?
• ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SERIES (noun)
The noun ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SERIES has 1 sense:
1. a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series
Familiarity information: ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SERIES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SERIES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
electrochemical series; electromotive force series; electromotive series
Hypernyms ("electromotive force series" is a kind of...):
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
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