Word Meanings - ELECTROLYSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

• Silverweed
  A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• WATERSPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
• Water lemon
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Water wheel
  Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an i
• Nickeline
  An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
• Water battery
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Watermelon
  The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a n
• SILVERGRAY
  Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• Plateful
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• Water bridge
  See Water table.
• WATERWING
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Water ordeal
  Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• Platinized
  of Platinize
• Water chicken
  The common American gallinule.
• Water plate
  A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
• WATERCANKER
  See Canker, n., 1.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.

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