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volta

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Noun

a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin

Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)

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Volta Count Alessandro Volta Conte Alessandro Volta Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta

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