[See VOLTA- and -METER.] An instrument used for the quantitative measurement of electricity by means of the results of electrolysis.
1836. Brande, Chem. (ed. 4), 385. When the quantity of products was examined by the voltameter, the oxygen … was always in the same proportion as from water.
1866. R. M. Ferguson, Electr. (1870), 140. To measure one or other of these is the object of a galvanometer or voltameter.
1881. S. P. Thompson, Electr. & Magnetism, 179. The voltameter gives us the ‘time integral’ of the current.
attrib. 1844. Noad, Electricity (ed. 2), 222. One equivalent of lead was reduced in the voltameter tube.
