Editing Galvanization (section)

==History and etymology==
[[File:NailsCloseup.jpg|thumb|Galvanized nails]]
The process is named after the Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher  [[Luigi Galvani]] (9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798). The earliest known example of galvanized iron was discovered on 17th-century Indian armour in the [[Royal Armouries]] Museum collection in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150327062539/http://royalarmouries.org/what-we-do/research/analytical-projects/zinc-coatings-of-indian-plate-and-mail-armour ZINC COATINGS OF INDIAN PLATE AND MAIL ARMOUR]. Summary of XRF analysis conducted in September 1999 by the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds and written up as part of a thesis by Helen Bowstead Stallybrass at the Department of Archaeological Sciences, [[Bradford University]].</ref>

The term "galvanized" can also be used metaphorically of any stimulus which results in activity by a person or group of people.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|edition=2|volume=VI|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=340|editor-last=Murray | editor-first = James A. H. |display-editors=etal|isbn=0 19 861218-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic6simp/page/340|year=1989}}</ref> 
 
In modern usage, the term "galvanizing" has largely come to be associated with zinc coatings, to the exclusion of other metals. Galvanic paint, a precursor to [[hot-dip galvanizing]], was patented by [[Stanislas Sorel]], of [[Paris]], on June 10, 1837, as an adoption of a term from a highly fashionable field of contemporary science, despite having no evident relation to it.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8oGAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Specification+of+a+Patent+for+a+process+for+protecting+articles+made+of+Iron+or+Steel+from+oxidation.%22&pg=PA52 |title= Specification of a Patent for a process for protecting articles made of Iron or Steel from oxidation|author= Sorel, M. |journal= Journal of the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)|publisher= Pergamon Press|date= 1838}}</ref>