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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