Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis:
- Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis describe the relationships between the amount of electric charge passed through a solution and the amount of product formed during an electrolysis reaction.
- The laws are named after the British scientist Michael Faraday, who first described them in 1833.
There are two laws of electrolysis:
First Law:
- The amount of substance deposited at an electrode during an electrolysis reaction is directly proportional to the amount of electric charge passed through the solution.
- This means that if you double the charge, you will double the amount of substance deposited.
Second Law:
- The amount of substance deposited at an electrode during an electrolysis reaction is directly proportional to the number of electrons involved in the reaction.
- This means that if you double the number of electrons, you will double the amount of substance deposited.