voltage

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To achieve this, the researchers applied a small electrical voltage barrier at the exits of the trap.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

An uncontrolled, sudden increase in voltage in the system "on a day with multiple concurrent phenomena" led to instability and "cascading generation", it said.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Also, the Spanish grid's voltage range is greater than that of many of its neighbours, giving it limited margin in the case of voltage surges that might lead to a disconnection.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

When the team applied a negative voltage across the membrane, it triggered a chemical reaction inside the nanopore.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates