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Chemical Process Using Electric Current

Chemical process using electric current commonly called as electrochemical, but for general people this name may don’t familiar. Named by Electrochemical because on the process involved the chemicals and electrical, so the whole process called as electrochemical.

Electrochemical is not just happened in plant or industry or laboratory, this process also always happened in nature. This process can go and trigger by any different voltage surround the chemicals substance. The different voltage on the environment of certain substance can
Electrochemical Cell
cause the reaction happened. For example the process of corrode, because of any voltage different make iron that stick to copper can be corroded faster than other metal that don’t stacked to copper metal. This condition used to happen on Air Conditioner tubing. Other metal in AC corroded faster than other iron on other product. Now this condition have been avoided by replace the metal with plastic material.

On the process of electrochemical there is oxidation and reduction reaction because of different voltage or make different voltage. Scientist then uses this characteristic to create Automobile Battery and other process that use this characteristic. On charging process people use electric that use the reverse process of using battery.

Electrochemical also use on producing chemicals because by this process for some substances can separate compound into substances. The example of this electrochemical process is as on water electrolysis.

Reaction: H2O ===> H2 (gas) + O2 (gas)

Electrochemical also can make the metal dissolved in the chemical solution vastly, and on the solution named by ion. This ion then go metal that have reverse voltage and stacked to them. This characteristic of metal ion being used in Electroplating Process. Metal will stick on the surface of other metal.

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