Electricity

Electricity

A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.

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lead

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The condition where the current precedes in time with respect to the voltage in an ac circuit (for example, a capacitive load).

The assembly of one or more cells with an electrolyte based on dilute sulfuric acid and water, a positive electrode of lead dioxide and negative electrodes of lead. Lead Acid batteries all use the ...

lead dioxide (battery)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The higher oxide of lead present in charged positive plates. It is frequently referred to as lead peroxide.

lead sulfate

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A lead salt formed by the action of sulfuric acid on lead oxide during paste mixing and formation. It is also formed electromechanically when a battery is discharged.

national electrical manufacturers association (NEMA)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

NEMA provides a forum for the standardization of electrical equipment and is located at 2101 L Street N.W., Washington, DC, 20037.

NFPA 70E standard

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Standard that provides guidance on implementing appropriate work practices that are required to safeguard workers from injury while working on or near exposed electrical conductors or circuit parts ...

random access memory (RAM)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

When an application is run it is called from the permanent storage area such as hard drive, floppy disk, or CD-ROM, and moved into the RAM where, it sends requests to the CPU. Using faster memory can ...