Relating to electrical effects or processes involving galvanism, the production of electric current through chemical reactions.
From electro- + galvanic (named after Luigi Galvani, 18th-century Italian physicist). The term combines two electrical phenomena—direct current and chemical-electrical reactions.
Galvani discovered electrical currents by accident when a dead frog's leg twitched during a lightning storm—now 'electrogalvanic' describes the exact chemical-electrical processes he accidentally discovered!
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