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Definition of Leiden jar
1. Noun. An electrostatic capacitor of historical interest.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leiden Jar
Literary usage of Leiden jar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1906)
"... is CAPACITY OF A leiden jar WITH CHARGING VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY. Length of 1 mm.
•*• i, i 2 mm. 2 „ 2 , 3 mm 3 „ 8 . 4 mm. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"... so that the cause of every contraction is like the discharge of a leiden jar,
the negative surface fibres of the muscles being peculiarly irritable. ..."
3. Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1892)
"ON THE HEATING OF THE GLASS WALL OF THE leiden jar BY THE CHARGE.: As it appeared
probable to me that the glass wall of the Leyden jar must be heated by its ..."
4. Elements and Electrons by William Ramsay (1912)
"... a Leiden-jar discharge, a still higher temperature. It is known that as the
temperature is successively increased by ..."
5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"By reference to the article leiden jar, it will be seen that a charged condenser
has a potential power. If one coulomb of electricity gives a condenser a ..."
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