An anode used to protect buried or submerged metal structures from corrosion, made from a metal alloy with a more "active" voltage (more negative electrochemical potential) than the metal of the protected structure, so that the anode material corrodes and is consumed in preference to the structure.

(chemistry) A device that produces an electric current through simultaneous oxidation and reduction reactions occurring at two connected half cells.

plural of galvanic cell

plural of galvanic action

In a way that galvanizes, or has a galvanizing effect