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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voltaism  \Vol"ta*ism\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  volta["i]sme.]  (Physics) 
  That  form  of  electricity  which  is  developed  by  the  chemical 
  action  between  metals  and  different  liquids;  voltaic 
  electricity;  also  the  science  which  treats  of  this  form  of 
  electricity;  --  called  also  {galvanism},  from  Galvani,  on 
  account  of  his  experiments  showing  the  remarkable  influence 
  of  this  agent  on  animals. 

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