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Electro-chemistry

Electro-chemistry \E*lec`tro-chem"is*try\, n. That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

Usage examples of "electro-chemistry".

But it was not from the Arctic as civilized man knew it, but from a fabulous domain in the depths of the earth-the Land of Always Night-a spot unknown to civilization, yet populated by a race so advanced that the intricacies of radio, of television, of surgery and medicine, of electro-chemistry, were little more complicated than the problems which confront a small child.

Monk possessed a small device perfected by himself, which, utilizing a combination of electro-chemistry properties, enabled him to ascertain the composition of any substance almost instantaneously.

This was the way Long Tom had explained the thing in a simplified way to Johnny Littlejohn, whose knowledge of electro-chemistry was somewhat less than his command of big words.