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The word electricity derives from Neo-Latin and ultimately Greek. It first appears in English in Francis Bacon's writings. Depending on context, the word may refer to "electric charge", "electric power" or "electric energy".
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. ... He coined the Neo-Latin word ...
the unit ampere for electric current in physics [4] the area of a figure [5] the mass number or nucleon number of an element in chemistry [6] the Helmholtz free energy of a closed thermodynamic system of constant pressure and temperature [7] a vector potential, in electromagnetics it can refer to the magnetic vector potential [8]
potential energy: joule (J) internal energy: joule (J) relativistic mass: kilogram (kg) energy density: joule per cubic meter (J/m 3) specific energy: joule per kilogram (J/kg) voltage also called electric potential difference volt (V) volume: cubic meter (m 3) shear force: velocity: meter per second (m/s)
A simple electromagnet, consisting of an insulated wire wound around an iron core. An electric current passing through the wire creates a Magnetic field, with a north pole at one end and a south pole at the other. The first application of electricity that was put to practical use was electromagnetism. [18]
The Latin term, during the Roman Empire, was aes cyprium; aes was the generic term for copper alloys such as bronze. Cyprium means "Cyprus" or "which is from Cyprus", where so much of it was mined; it was simplified to cuprum and then eventually Anglicized as "copper" (Old English coper/copor). · Symbol Cu is from the Latin name cuprum ("copper").
Experiment De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs. Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico Galvani and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. [6]
The Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) estimated that CO 2 emissions from electricity production in 2003 were 6.5 million tons of CO 2. [12] Currently 30 percent of CO 2 emissions in Colombia come from the power sector, but these could increase if thermal generation gains a larger part of the energy mix.