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Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery , an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called

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Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery , an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or circle. See under Circuit. -- Galvanic pile , the voltaic pile. See under Voltaic. (more info) Bologna, on account of his connection with the discovery

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