1 Products of
Electrolysis
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Electrochemistry
electrodes The products of electrolysis depend on the different oxidising
and reducing species present in the electrolytic cell and their standard
electrode potentials Moreover, some of the electrochemical processes
although feasible, are so slow kinetically that at lower voltages these do
not seem to take place and extra potential (called overpotential) has to
be applied, which makes such process more difficult to occur For example, if we use molten NaCl, the products of electrolysis are
sodium metal and Cl2 gas