Contact potential
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Contact potential may refer to:
- Contact electrificationContact electrificationContact electrification is an obsolete scientific theory from the Enlightenment that attempted to account for all the sources of electric charge known at the time. In the late 18th century, scientists developed sensitive instruments for detecting 'electrification', otherwise known as electrostatic...
- Galvani potentialGalvani potentialGalvani potential in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points in the bulk of two phases...
difference (in electrochemistry, at a junction of two metals) - Volta potentialVolta potentialVolta potential in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points in the vacuum:...
difference (in electrochemistry, between two points in vacuum near surfaces of two metals in contact)