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Offline goleynik

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Expansion of a material with the addition of electricity?
« on: October 01, 2012, 04:26:55 PM »
Is there any type of liquid or solid, or any material that will expand with the addition of electricity, or vice versa?

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Re: Expansion of a material with the addition of electricity?
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 08:22:53 PM »
Yes, this phenomenon is named piezoelectricity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
But I am not specialist of that type of material at all.

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