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Faraday's laws of electrolysis

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discovered that when the same amount of electric current is passed through different electrolytes connected in series, the masses of the substances deposited or liberated at the electrodes are directly proportional to their respective chemical
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A monovalent ion requires 1 electron for discharge, a divalent ion requires 2 electrons for discharge and so on. Thus, if
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Ehl, Rosemary Gene; Ihde, Aaron (1954). "Faraday's Electrochemical Laws and the Determination of Equivalent Weights".
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In the more complicated case of a variable electric current, the total charge
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For the case of an alloy whose constituents have different valencies, we have
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of the substance (usually given in SI units of grams per mole) and
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Strong, F. C. (1961). "Faraday's Laws in One Equation".
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is the total charge, equal to the number of electrons (
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is the total time the constant current was applied.
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Index

Faraday's law of electrolysis

Michael Faraday
electrochemical
Michael Faraday
SI
ampere
seconds
coulombs
equivalent weight
Avogadro constant
elementary charge
Faraday constant
molar mass
valency
ions
current
amount of substance
mass fraction

adding to it
Electrolysis
Faraday's law of induction
Tafel equation
Faraday, Michael
"on Electrical Decomposition"
doi
10.1098/rstl.1834.0008
S2CID
116224057

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