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What is Electrochemistry

raistlin - 13-7-2002 at 16:25

What exactly is electrochemistry?

Raistlin

Polverone - 13-7-2002 at 23:54

Broadly and briefly, it's chemical reactions using electricity.

raistlin - 14-7-2002 at 15:23

Hehe, thats pretty straight forward, would extracting hydrogen and oxygen from what using the wires and battery be considered electrochemistry?

Raistlin

Polverone - 14-7-2002 at 21:35

Yes it would. Note that you won't get much hydrogen and oxygen unless you add something to make the water more conductive, such as a little sulfuric acid.

raistlin - 15-7-2002 at 07:09

Ok, I was just making sure that I had some clue as to what you were talking about....

Raistlin

O-chem

PrimoPyro - 8-8-2002 at 18:10

Most electrochemistry centers around organic chemistry type reactions but incorporating electrochemical principles and/or methods.

I've only seen very minimal amounts of "general chemistry" related stuff that is electro. Most of it seems to be improvements on organic methods using electrodes, etc.

PrimoPyro