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Understanding Electrolysis Applications

The document discusses Faraday's law of electrolysis, which states that the mass of a substance deposited at an electrode during electrolysis is directly proportional to the quantity of electricity passed through the electrolytic cell. It provides examples of applications of electrolysis including electroplating to coat metals, electrolytic refining of metals to remove impurities, and the electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen gases.

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Understanding Electrolysis Applications

The document discusses Faraday's law of electrolysis, which states that the mass of a substance deposited at an electrode during electrolysis is directly proportional to the quantity of electricity passed through the electrolytic cell. It provides examples of applications of electrolysis including electroplating to coat metals, electrolytic refining of metals to remove impurities, and the electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen gases.

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The Electrolysis Law

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
1224E
URECHE ANDREEA CRISTINA

Statement of the law:


The substance mass m deposited at one of the electrodes of an electrolytic bath in a time
interval [t1;t2] depends on the electric current i(t) flowing through the bath as in relation:

Where:
F0 is a universal constant called Faradays constant, that has the value 96.484,6
A is the mols mass of the deposited substance
v is the valence of a ion from the deposited substance

Application:Electrolytic Refining of Metals


The process of electrolytic refining of metals is used to extract impurities from crude
metals.
a block of crude metal is used as anode
a diluted salt of that metal is used as electrolyte
plates of that pure metal is used as cathode

Electrolytic Refining of Copper

Application:Electroplating
Electroplating is used to coat one metal with another metal by using electrolysis.
Electroplating is usually done to improve the appearance of the metal or prevent
the corrosion of the metal.
The cathode is the object to be plated,
while anode is the desired metal to coat
the object. The electrolyte solution
must contain ions of the same metal for
plating. During electrolysis, the anode
will dissolve into the solution. The ions
produced will migrate to the cathode
where they are discharged and
deposited as a layer on the cathode.
It is important to ensure that the
cathode is electrically conductive. (If
not, the electrolysis does not work.)

Application: Electrolysis of Water


By providing energy from a battery, water (H2O) can be dissociated into the
diatomic molecules of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). The electrolysis of one mole
of water produces a mole of hydrogen gas and a half-mole of oxygen gas in their
normal diatomic forms.
This technique can be used to make hydrogen fuel (hydrogen gas) and breathable
oxygen; though currently most industrial methods make hydrogen fuel from natural
gas instead.

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