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An electrode is a conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a skin, an electrolyte or a vacuum). The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron (meaning amber, whence the word electricity is derived) and hodos, a way.^[1]

They are used in electrophysiology studies.

See also

Stimulators (apparatus)

References

1. ↑ Michael Faraday, "On Electrical Decomposition", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1834 (in which Faraday coins the words electrode, anode, cathode, anion, cation, electrolyte, electrolyze).

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