Can we get hydrogen and oxygen by setting up an arrangement for passing current through distilled water? Why?

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Solution

Pure water is bad conductor of electricity. Inorder to conduct electricity , inorder to electrolyse water it must be acidulated or made alkaline to get hydrogen due to reduction of H+ ions at anode and oxygen at cathode due to reduction

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