faraday

(noun)

The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately 96,487 coulombs.

Related Terms

  • coulombs

Examples of faraday in the following topics:

  • Electrolysis Stoichiometry

    • It takes 96,485 coulombs to constitute a mole of electrons, a unit known as the faraday (F).
    • This relation was first formulated by Michael Faraday in 1832, in the form of two laws of electrolysis:
    • Thus, one mole of V3+ corresponds to three equivalents of this species, and will require three faradays of charge to deposit it as metallic vanadium ($V^{3+} + 3e^- \rightarrow V$).
  • Thermodynamics of Redox Reactions

  • Cathode Rays

    • In 1838, Michael Faraday passed a current through a rarefied air-filled glass tube and noticed a strange light arc with its beginning at the cathode (negative electrode) and its end almost at the anode (positive electrode).
    • Faraday had been the first to notice a dark space just in front of the cathode, where there was no luminescence.
    • This came to be called the cathode dark space, Faraday dark space, or Crookes dark space.
    • Crookes found that as he pumped more air out of the tubes, the Faraday dark space spread down the tube from the cathode toward the anode, until the tube was totally dark.
  • Concentration of Cells

    • Here, n is the number of moles of electrons, F is the Faraday constant ($\frac {Coulombs}{mole}$), and ΔE is the cell potential.
  • Free Energy and Cell Potential

    • Here, n is the number of moles of electrons and F is the Faraday constant (96,485$\frac {Coulombs}{mole}$).
  • Mass Spectrometry to Measure Mass

    • The ions are detected, usually by a quantitative method such as a Faraday collector.
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