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n. - A current produced by heat.

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  • There is a whole program of investments in thermoelectricity.
  • Their branched tails lay in shadow, their heads in sunlight, while thermoelectricity charged their biochemical batteries.
  • Sturgeon also worked on improving the voltaic battery, developing a theory of thermoelectricity, and even atmospheric charge conditions.
  • The conductivity of electricity and heat by metals, thermoelectricity, permanent and temporary magnets, heat radiation and absorption, the optical, electrical and...
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