hydrodendron

Latin

Noun

hydrodendron n (genitive hydrodendrī); second declension

1. (rare, physics) cathode
   • 1802, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, De electricitatis galvanicæ apparatu cel. Volta excitæ in corpora organica effectu :

     Praeterea fortior est a parte hydrodendri, si conjunxeris, et a parte oxydendri si polos disjunxeris.

     Moreover it is stronger on the part of the cathode, if you have joined the poles, and on the part of the anode if you have separated them.

   • 1802, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, De electricitatis galvanicæ apparatu cel. Volta excitæ in corpora organica effectu :

     Si decem ad summum paria construuntur, et ab oxydendro in aquam, in qua linguae extremitas demersa est, ductio galvanica instituitur, hydrodendro autem digitus madefactus apponitur, sapor sentitur acidulus; inverso autem ordine sapor acris et asper, a multis alcalinus vocatus.

     If ten pairs are constructed at the top, and a galvanic current is established from the anode into water in which the tip of the tongue is immersed, and a wet finger is applied to the cathode, a sourish taste is tasted; but in inverse order a taste acrid and bitter, by many called alkaline.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter; Greek-type or nominative/accusative/vocative in -um).

	singular	plural
nominative	hydrodendron hydrodendrum	hydrodendra
genitive	hydrodendrī	hydrodendrōrum
dative	hydrodendrō	hydrodendrīs
accusative	hydrodendron hydrodendrum	hydrodendra
ablative	hydrodendrō	hydrodendrīs
vocative	hydrodendron hydrodendrum	hydrodendra

See also

• oxydendron