thermo-electricityn.
Electricity generated in a body by difference of temperature in its parts; esp. an electric current produced in a closed circuit composed of two dissimilar metals when one of the points of union is kept at a temperature different from that of the rest of the circuit. Also, that branch of electrical science which treats of currents produced by means of heat.
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1823 J. Cumming in Ann. Philos. New Ser. 6 177 (heading) A List of Substances arranged according to their Thermoelectric Relations, with a Description of Instruments for exhibiting Rotation by Thermoelectricity.
1827 J. Cumming Man. Electro Dynamics 189 On the electro-dynamic effects of heat, or thermo-electricity.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 341 The curious relations of electricity to heat, as exhibited in the phenomena of what has been called thermo-electricity.
1834 Edinb. Rev. 59 167 The new branches of magneto-electricity and thermo-electricity.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiv. 347 In 1826 Thomas Seebeck discovered thermo-electricity.
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