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How to pronounce galvanism in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy
Type of therapy
Has types ect, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock, electroshock therapy
Derivation galvanise, galvanize
Type Words
Type of electricity
Derivation galvanic

Examples of galvanism

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Electricity, galvanism, magnetism, electro-magnetism, heat, and the steam engine.
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The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day, and cost us nothing.
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Bored by the foul weather, they shared ghost stories, thoughts about galvanism and the bringing of dead matter back to life.
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Frankenstein is ahead of his time, endowing dead flesh with life via galvanism, a technique as cutting edge and mysterious in Shelley's era as nanotechnology is today.
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Abbe gave lectures on theory of gravity, galvanism and electrodynamics, theory of functions of a complex variable, applications of physics, selected divisions of mechanics, and mechanics of solids.
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At university, he excels at chemistry and other sciences, and, after studying galvanism, a phenomenon discovered in the 1790s, develops a secret technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life.
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More examples
  • Electricity produced by chemical action
  • Electrotherapy: the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
  • In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. In physics and chemistry, it is the induction of electrical current from a chemical reaction, typically between two chemicals with differing electronegativites.
  • In 1840 Thomas Spencer and John Wilson patented a process that could electroplate metal with the use of a Voltaic battery called electro-etching or electro-tint. ...
  • Electropotential difference of dissimilar metals which can occur in dental implant metallurgy.