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li5504552
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 Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: galvanic cell |
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| -I was doing some problems where it said that in absence of salt bridge for galvanic cell, cations will go towards cathode? I don't understand this because I thought cathode was positively charged in a galvanic cell .Thanks. |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| If there is no salt bridge (or equivalent) then spontaneous movement of electrons in the wire is halted (completely) and the galvanic cell simply will not work. I see no logic in cations moving towards a cathode in an electrochemical cell that can't even function. |
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