selenium cell

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   a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium

   Broaderphotoelectric cell

Questions about selenium cell

What does selenium cell mean?

selenium cell means "a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium".

Is selenium cell a common word?

selenium cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.