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Electroimpact
Electroimpact is an American aerospace automation company founded by Peter Zieve in Mukilteo, Washington, in 1986, building automated riveting, drilling, and fiber placement machines for Boeing, Airbus, and spacecraft makers.
Electrokinetic chromatography
Electrokinetic chromatography (EKC), also known as electrokinetic capillary chromatography, is a capillary separation technique combining electrophoresis with chromatographic partitioning into a pseudostationary phase; its best-known form, MEKC, was introduced by Shigeru Terabe in 1984.
Electrokinetic remediation
Electrokinetic remediation (EKR) is an in situ environmental engineering method that applies a direct-current field through contaminated soil, moving heavy metals, organics, and uranium to electrode wells for extraction.
Electrokymography
Electrokymography: radiographic technique combining a photoelectric recording system with fluoroscopy to record heart-border motion, also called photokymography or roentgenkymography; developed by Henny and Boone from 1945.
Electrolarynx
An electrolarynx, also called an artificial or mechanical larynx, is a handheld, battery-operated device that creates an external vibratory sound source for people who have lost their larynx.
Electrolaser
An electrolaser is a directed-energy weapon that uses a laser to create a conductive plasma channel in air and sends a high-voltage discharge down it.
Electroless deposition
Electroless deposition, or electroless plating, deposits metal coatings by autocatalytic chemical reduction without external current, achieving uniform thickness on any geometry, including non-conductive substrates like plastics.
Electroless nickel plating
Electroless nickel plating is a chemical process that coats metal or plastic with a nickel-phosphorus alloy without electric current, giving uniform coatings prized for corrosion and wear resistance.
Electroluminescence
Electroluminescence, also called the Destriau effect, is the emission of light from a material driven by an electric field or injected current, without heating it; it is the working principle of LEDs and OLEDs.
Electroluminescence imaging
Electroluminescence imaging is a rapid, non-destructive inspection technique that maps the infrared light emitted by a forward-biased solar cell, revealing cracks, broken fingers, and degradation as dark regions.
Electrolux
Electrolux is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of household and professional appliances, founded by Axel Wenner-Gren in Stockholm in 1919 and selling under the Electrolux, AEG, and Frigidaire brands in around 120 markets.
Electrolysis
Electrolysis is the use of an electric current to drive otherwise nonspontaneous redox reactions, typically splitting compounds into their elements, a process Michael Faraday quantified in the early 1830s.
Electrolysis of water
Electrolysis of water, also called water electrolysis, is the use of electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in a device called an electrolyzer.
Electrolyte
An electrolyte, also called an ionic solution, is a conducting medium in which electric current flows through the movement of ions; electrolytes make electrochemical cells and batteries work.
Electrolyte additive
An electrolyte additive is a minor component, a few tenths of a percent to a few weight percent, dissolved in lithium-ion battery electrolytes to improve stability, cycle life, and safety.
Electrolyte and drug effects on the ECG
Electrolyte and drug effects on the ECG are the characteristic electrocardiogram changes caused by potassium, calcium, and magnesium disturbances and by QT-prolonging drugs like sotalol.
Electrolyte imbalance
Electrolyte imbalance: abnormal blood levels of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, or bicarbonate. Caused by vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, drugs, or organ disease; treated by repletion, dilution, or dialysis.
Electrolyte-gated synaptic transistor
An electrolyte-gated synaptic transistor is a three-terminal device where an ion-conducting electrolyte acts as gate dielectric, moving ions to emulate synaptic plasticity for neuromorphic computing and bioelectronics.
Electrolyte-gated transistor biosensor
An electrolyte-gated transistor biosensor replaces a transistor's solid gate dielectric with an electrolyte, so biomolecule binding shifts drain current, enabling label-free diagnostics below 1 V.
Electrolytic capacitor
An electrolytic capacitor, also known as an electrolytic condenser or E-cap, is a polarized capacitor with an electrolyte cathode, offering very high capacitance per volume for power supplies.
Electrolytic deposition
Electrolytic deposition is an electrochemical fabrication method in which an external current through an electrolyte deposits metal or ceramic coatings onto conductive substrates, the workpiece serving as the cathode.
Electrolytic oxidation
Electrolytic oxidation is an electrochemical method that oxidizes dissolved or adsorbed substances at an anode by passing current through an electrolyte, used for organic electrosynthesis and mineralizing pollutants in wastewater.
Electrolytic reduction
Electrolytic reduction is a conservation treatment that makes a metal artifact the cathode of an electrolytic cell, removing chlorides chiefly from iron recovered from shipwrecks.
Electromagnet
An electromagnet is a magnet whose field comes from electric current in a wire coil, often around an iron core, and can be switched on and off.
Electromagnetic absorption by water
Electromagnetic absorption by water, also called water absorption, is the conversion of electromagnetic radiation into molecular motion and heat by liquid, vapor, or solid water.
Electromagnetic acoustic transducer
An electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) is a non-contact device that generates ultrasound in conducting or ferromagnetic materials without couplant, used for non-destructive testing of hot, coated, or corroded surfaces.
Electromagnetic action and Lagrangian formulation
The electromagnetic action and Lagrangian formulation packages all of classical electrodynamics into one Lorentz-scalar action; varying it gives the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations, and Noether's theorem gives energy and momentum conservation.
Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is the US Navy's electromagnetic catapult that launches carrier aircraft with a linear induction motor, replacing steam catapults on Ford-class carriers.
Electromagnetic and rare probes of quark–gluon plasma
Electromagnetic and rare probes are signals of the quark–gluon plasma that leave the collision zone unscattered, comprising dileptons, real photons, quarkonium suppression, and strangeness enhancement, probing deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration.
Electromagnetic articulography
Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) is a biomedical technique that tracks tongue, lip, and jaw movements during speech with sensor coils, supporting phonetic research and clinical assessment.