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Galvanism  n.  (Physics)
(a)
Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
(b)
The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents. Note: The words galvanism and galvanic, formerly in very general use, are now rarely employed. For the latter, voltaic, from the name of Volta, is commonly used.





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"Galvanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... true modesty by a certain ingenuousness of tone. Those who saw him felt drawn to him by that attraction of the moral nature which men of science are happily unable to analyze; they would detect in it some phenomenon of galvanism, or the current of I know not what fluid, and express our sentiments in a formula of ratios of oxygen ...
— The Purse • Honore de Balzac


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