Volta (album) contained distorted audio samples and snippets of the lyrics from some of the tracks on "Volta". The videos were discovered on March 28, 2007, though one of the videos had been uploaded to YouTube as early as March 19, 2007. A mysterious MySpace profile link was then discovered on March 28, 2007, which featured another cryptic video and four new audio samples. The profile belonged to a fictitious "Gerome Voltaire" (a play on "Alessandro Volta", the inventor of the electric battery) of the band "itshardtofindabandname" from Iceland. An article on Pitchfork Media on 29 March 2007 later confirmed the authenticity
Volta potential by its work function, and so dissimilar metals can show an electric potential difference even at equilibrium. The Volta potential is "not" an intrinsic property of the two bulk metals under consideration, but rather is determined by work function differences between the metals' surfaces. Just like the work function, the Volta potential depends sensitively on surface state, contamination, and so on. The potential is given by the formula: formula_1, where V is the potential, The Volta potential can be significant (of order 1 volt) but it cannot be measured directly by an ordinary voltmeter. A voltmeter does not measure vacuum