Electrolyte - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: electrolyteElectrolytic
Pertaining to electrolysis as electrolytic action...
electroplating
The art or process of depositing a coating commonly of silver gold or nickel on an inferior metal by means of an electric current The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath which holds the electrolyte solution...
Ion
an atom or goup of atoms radical carrying an electrical charge It is contrasted with neutral atoms or molecules and free radicals Certain compounds such as sodium chloride are composed of complementary ions in the solid crystalline as well as in solution Others notably acids such as hydrogen chloride may occur as neutral molecules in the pure liquid or gas forms and ionize almost completely in dilute aqueous solutions In solutions as in water ions are frequently bound non covalently with the molecules of solvent and in that case are said to be solvated According to the electrolytic dissociation theory the molecules of electrolytes are divided into ions by water and other solvents An ion consists of one or more atoms and carries one unit charges of electricity 34 x 10 10 electrostatic units or a multiple of this Those which are positively electrified hydrogen and the metals are called cations negative ions hydroxyl and acidic atoms or groups are called anions...
Cathode
The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte the negative pole opposed to anode...
corticosterone
any of several steroid compounds secreted by the adrenal cortex they are involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body...
Cymoscope
Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit on the magnetization of steel on the polarization of an electrolytic cell or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes...
Electro etching
A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action...
Electrolyte
A compound decomposable or subjected to decomposition by an electric current...
Nobilis rings
Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper lead peroxide etc They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate...
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