Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Electrolysis
- Molten Salts
- At the anode: metal
- At the cathode: Non-metal
- Salt solution
- At the cathode: More reactive metals stay
as ions in solution. Instead, H+ ions accept
electrons forming Hydrogen molecules
- At the anode: Non-metal except
sulfates in which case
O2
- CATIONS(+) --> CATHODE(-)
- ANIONS(-) --> ANODE(+)
- The process in which electricity is used to break
compounds down into their elements
- Industrially important as it is the only extraction method available for the
most reactive metals
- Electrolytes - liquids which conduct electricity by
movement of ions. When they conduct the ionic
compound is split up
- E.g. Molten salts, solutions of salts in water, solutions of acids,
solutions of alkalis
- Rules for electroplating an object
- The object must be made at the cathode
- the electrolyte must be a solution of a
salt of the required metal
- the anode must be made of
a strip of the metal
- During electrolysis
- the oxidation of non-metal ions always takes
place at the anode
- the reduction of a metal or
hydrogen ions always take place
at the cathode