Electrochemistry

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ElectrochemistryChemical reactions at an electrode, galvanic and electrolytic cellsA Chem1 Reference TextStephen K. Lower Simon Fraser University1Table of contents1:Chemistry and electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Electroneutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Potential differences at interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52:Electrochemical cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Transport of charge within the cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Cell description conventions.

oxygen and hydrogen. This was surely one of the most significant experiments in the history of chemistry, for it implied that the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen were associated with pos-itive and negative electric charges, which must be the source of the bonding forces between them.

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