Galvanic vs Electrolysis - What's the difference?
galvanic | electrolysis |
Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
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(by extension) Energetic, vigorous.
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(chemistry) the chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt
the destruction of hair roots by means of an electric current
As an adjective galvanic
is of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.As a noun electrolysis is
(chemistry) the chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.galvanic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.
- Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.
- Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.
Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):
- But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis.