electricity produced by chemical action
the therapeutic application of electricity to the body
The phenomenon of dissimilar electrical patterns created in the mouth through the use of dental metals.
When different metals are in contact with each other, one "eats" the other according to the scheme below, listing the most durable metal last. The table also reflects the durability of metals immersed in water. This knowledge is useful for understanding a deteriorated wrecksite, as well as for treating recovered objects (never mixing metals). The galvanic series : zinc, iron (cast iron, forged iron, steel), tin, lead, bronze (61-83% copper and the rest tin), copper, artillery bronze (88% copper, 2% zinc, 10% tin), silver, gold. Source: IJNA 11.3 (1982) pp 221-231.
noun: the name given to effects resembling electricity, produced by metallic substances
Electropotential difference of dissimilar metals which can occur in dental implant metallurgy.
In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. The effect was named by Alessandro Volta after his contemporary, the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780s and 1790s. Galvani himself referred to the phenomenon as animal electricity, believing that he had discovered a distinct form of electricity.