galvanization
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Generally speaking, mass galvanization requires, at bare minimum, a shared understanding of reality and what that reality means.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025
We saw last summer the spontaneous galvanization of an intergenerational multiracial, multiethnic movement in response to police violence and in response to other inequities in our society.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
Iron and other metals may also be protected from corrosion by galvanization, a process in which the metal to be protected is coated with a layer of a more readily oxidized metal, usually zinc.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
He tracks every step of this galvanization process — from the caldron’s 865-degree temperature to the line speed — on a bank of flashing screens.
From New York Times • May 11, 2017
I believe the best results can be obtained by first going through the faradic process, then subjecting the patient to general galvanization, as above indicated, and concluding by another but brief faradization.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
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