Electricity and chemistry

In tissue and the living cell there is an inseparable alliance between electricity and chemistry. Electrolytic theory and electrochemistry therefore form an important basis for... 

The word electrochemistry derives from the terms electricity and chemistry, it applies to a scientific discipline as well as to a sector of industry. Ordinary dictionaries define it as the science which describes the interactions between chemistry and electricity, or the chemical phenomena that are coupled with reciprocal exchanges of electric energy. 

Faraday s experience grew. He studied chlorine and its reactions and isolated the first two compounds of carbon and chlorine. While serving as an expert witness in a court case, he investigated the ignition point of heated oil vapor, which led to the discovery of benzene. When he was 30 years old he married Sarah Barnard, the sister of one of his friends at the City Philosophical Society when he was about 40 he began investigating connections between electricity and chemistry— the work that would be his greatest claim to chemical fame. 

Figure 8.1. The interaction of electricity and chemistry is an important phenomenon in many areas.

Conway, B.E. Electricity and Chemistry, Dow Staff Research Lecture, 1966, Univ. of Ottawa, publ. Univ. of Ottawa Press Ottawa, 1967. 

The words electrochemical or electrochemistry suggest that there is a close relationship between electricity and chemistry. One such relationship was discovered by Michael Faraday in 1833. Faraday s law of electrolysis is used to directly connect the amount of electric charge, Q (in C), passed in an electrochemical cell (electrolytic or galvanic) and the amount of a chemical, m (in kg), produced (consumed) at the cell electrodes ... 

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