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the unit named after a frog-twitching electrician who didn't believe frogs made electricity
means The standard unit of electric potential difference, measuring the 'push' that drives current through a circuit.
from Named in honor of Alessandro Volta, the Italian physicist who built the first true battery (the 'voltaic pile') around 1800. His rival Luigi Galvani believed twitching frog legs proved animals carried their own 'animal electricity'; Volta argued the electricity came from the metals touching the frog, not the frog itself — and proved it by making a pile of metal discs that produced steady current with no frog required. The unit 'volt' was adopted internationally in the early 1880s to honor him.
- namesake
- Alessandro Volta, who invented the first true battery
- defined as
- one joule of work per coulomb of charge
- frog feud
- named to spite Galvani's frog-leg theory
- lightning
- a single bolt packs up to a billion
- taser truth
- high voltage, tiny current makes it survivable
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