An electrolytic cell consists of:

positively charged cathode

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negatively charged anode

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positively charged anode and negatively charged cathode

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Solution

The correct option is D positively charged anode and negatively charged cathode
An electrolytic cell is made up of a positively charged anode and a negatively charged cathode. Electrolytic refining is a method mainly to purify metals such as copper, silver, zinc, tin, lead etc. The impure metal will be the anode and at the cathode metal ions get reduced and the pure metal gets deposited.

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