Quote: Faraday named anode, cathode, anions, cations, ion, and electrolyte

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665. Finally, I require a term to express those bodies which can pass to the electrodes ... [p. 198] I propose to distinguish such bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions. Thus, the chloride of lead is an electrolyte, and when electrolyzed evolves the two ions, chlorine and lead, the former being an anion, and the later a cation.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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