Contact Potential

Contact potential may refer to:

  • Contact electrification
  • Electromotive force#Contact potentials
    • Galvani potential difference (in electrochemistry, at a junction of two metals)
    • Volta potential difference (in electrochemistry, between two points in vacuum near surfaces of two metals in contact)

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