Faraday's Law of Electrolysis
Faraday's Law of Electrolysis: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis, Faraday's First Law of Electrolysis, Current Efficiency & Equivalent Masses of Elements etc.
Important Questions on Faraday's Law of Electrolysis
Consider the reaction :
The electricity in coulombs required to reduce 1 mol of would be:

A current of is passed through of solution of for with a current efficiency . Find out the molarity of after the deposition of . Assume the volume of the solution to remain constant during the electrolysis.

Calculate the quantity of electricity that would be required to reduce 12.3 g of nitrobenzene to aniline, if the current efficiency for the process is 50 per cent. If the potential drop across the cell is 3.0 volts, how much energy will be consumed?

An acidic solution of salt containing is electrolysed until all the copper is deposited. The electrolysis is continued for seven more minutes with the volume of solution kept at 100 mL and the current at 1.2 amp. The volume of gases evolved at NTP during the entire electrolysis:

In a fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen react to produce electricity. In the process, hydrogen gas is oxidised at the anode and oxygen is reduced at the cathode. If of at react in minutes, what is the average current produced? If the entire current is used for electro deposition of copper from copper solution, how many grams of copper will be deposited?
Anode reaction:
Cathode reaction:

Chromium metal can be plated out from an acidic solution containing according to the following equation.
Determine the following :
(i) The amount of chromium that will be plated out by coulombs.
(ii) The time it will take to plate out of chromium by using current.

Chromium metal can be plated out from an acidic solution containing according to the following equation:
Calculate:
(i) The amount of chromium that will be plated out by .
(ii) The time it will take to plate out of chromium by using current.

An aqueous solution of on electrolysis gives according to the reaction:
A direct current of with a current efficiency of is passed through of solution ( by weight). The reaction taking place at the anode and the cathode are:
Reaction at anode:
Reaction at cathode:
The time it will take to produce of and the molarity of the solution with respect to hydroxide ion would be (if it is assumed that there is no loss because of evaporation):

The charge in coulombs of 1 gram of ion

The electric charge for electrode deposition of one gram equivalent of a substance is:

Faraday’s laws of electrolysis are related to the:

Electrolysis of dilute aqueous solution was carried out by passing milli ampere current. The time required to liberate of gas at the cathode is :

Aluminium oxide may be electrolysed at to give Al metal (at mass = 27 amu, 1F = 96,500 C). To prepare 5.12 kg of Al would require

A metal surface of area has to be coated with nickel layer of thickness A current of was passed through a solution of for seconds to coat the desired layer. The value of is _________. (Nearest integer)
( (density of Nickel) is Molar mass of Nickel is )

of current passed through acidified water for . The volume (in Litres) of hydrogen gas liberated at is
Round off the answer to the nearest integer.

Two electrolytic cells one containing solution and the other containing solution are connected in series. The same quantity of electricity is passed between the cells. Calculate the amount deposited in cell if of is deposited in cell.
Report your answer upto one decimal place.

Calculate the mass of benzene that would be required to produce a current of one ampere for three hours from following data

The weight of silver deposited when faraday current is passed through silver nitrate solution.

If of silver is deposited during an electrolysis reaction, how much aluminium will be deposited by the same amount of electric current?

During the electrolysis of , it was found that and were liberated in a molar ratio of How many moles of were found is terms of moles of ?
