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electricity's first job title, before it learned to just be electricity.

means an adjective for anything producing electric current through chemical reaction, especially early batteries.

from named after alessandro volta, who in 1800 stacked zinc and copper discs with brine-soaked cloth and proved electricity could flow from chemistry, not just static sparks.

for instance

voltaic pilevolta's 1800 zinc-copper stack, the first true battery

voltaic cellbasic chemistry-class device generating current from two metals

como monumenttempio voltiano in italy, built 1927 to honor volta

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