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Explain faraday's first law of electrolysis in details.


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Faraday's First law of electrolysis

  • Michael Faraday established Faraday's law of electrolysis.
  • According to Faraday's First Law of Electrolysis, the chemical deposition caused by the flow of current through an electrolyte is proportionate to the amount of electricity passing through it.
  • The amount of electricity needed to release one gram-equivalent of any material at any electrode is called a faraday, and it passes through an electrolyte.
  • Faraday's constant is equal to 96485Cmol-1.

Formula of Faraday's first law

mQm=ZQm=ZIt

  • m is the mass of the ions formed or reacted.
  • Q is the electric current.
  • Z is the electrochemical equivalent mass of one-coulomb charge.
  • is the current.
  • is the time
  • When one coulomb equals one electrochemical equivalent mass of a material, one equivalent of electrons flowing per second equals 96485 equivalents mass.

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