mercury-arc rectifier
1mercury-arc rectifier — gyvsidabrio lygintuvas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. mercury rectifier; mercury arc rectifier vok. Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter, m; Quecksilbergleichrichter, m rus. ртутный выпрямитель, m pranc. redresseur à vapeur de mercure, m …
2mercury-arc rectifier — noun : an alternating current rectifier consisting of a mercury arc especially designed to utilize its rectifying action, one electrode being a pool of mercury with current flowing only during that part of the cycle in which the mercury acts as… …
3Mercury-arc valve — Mercury rectifier on display in Beromünster, Switzerland before being decommissioned A mercury arc valve (mercury vapor rectifier) is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high voltage or high current alternating current (AC) into… …
4Mercury arc valve — A mercury arc valve (mercury vapor rectifier) is a type of electrical rectifier which converts alternating current into direct current. Rectifiers of this type were used in electric motor power supplies for industry, in electric… …
5mercury arc — noun : an electric discharge through mercury vapor in a glass or quartz tube emitting a blue green light rich in actinic and ultraviolet rays and used for various purposes (as for water sterilization, in photography, and in a rectifier) * * *… …
6Rectifier — A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), a process known as rectification. Rectifiers have many uses including as components of power supplies and as detectors of radio signals. Rectifiers …
7mercury rectifier — gyvsidabrio lygintuvas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. mercury rectifier; mercury arc rectifier vok. Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter, m; Quecksilbergleichrichter, m rus. ртутный выпрямитель, m pranc. redresseur à vapeur de mercure, m …
8Mercury switch — A Single Pole, Single Throw (SPST) mercury switch on millimetre graph paper …
9arc-back — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : failure of a gas filled or mercury vapor rectifier to suppress the current during the inverse voltage half of a cycle due to overheating of the anode or to other causes * * * /ahrk bak /, n. Electronics. an undesirable… …
10Mechanical rectifier — A mechanical rectifier is a device for converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by means of mechanically operated switches. The best known type is the commutator, which is an integral part of a DC dynamo but, before solid state… …
