Vocabulary : Electro-motion to Electrophori
Electro-motion : The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.Electro-motive : Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Electromotor : A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity. ;; An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
Electro-muscular : Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
Electron : Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum. ;; One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron.
