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If i use HCl as the electrolyte in the electrolysis of H20

Ice_Phoenix87
in Inorganic Chemistry

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Careful about sparks, things will blow up and go BOOM and then you'll go to sleep and wake up in a room full of white.

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lol so i should have used H2S04? :P which is negative and postive? (anode and cathode)

anode is negative and cathode is positive

Cathode is Neg Anode is Pos

 

it only changes when talking about Ions.

you`ll get some, but as Cl is quite solluble, you`ll be making some Chloric acids too HClO(n).

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lol sounds fun :P bloody chemistry teacher gave me HCl instead of H2SO4 even though i asked for H2SO4

didn't I have a forum about this sort of thing...

 

Oh well, be that as it may, I would recomend using NaOH as the salt in the solution for electrolysis. It appears to be very stable, and good for this sort of thing with the right materials.

 

at least that's what they tell me here on the forum.

I don't know borek. NaOH doesn't seem all that covalent to me. ;)

hes probly thinking it aint a salt because it isnt produced by acting an acid on a base. But however it is produced by reacting Na with water, which makes it a salt by kind of like what i just said.

hydroxide is a compoun with +OH ion

Look at NaCl. That's a classic salt which can be formed from the direct action of chlorine gas on sodium metal. No acid or base is involved. A salt does NOT have to be formed from the reaction between an acid and a base.

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I had a definition in my chem text book that a salt is any compound which doesnt fall into the categories of either acidic or basic is that correct or?

i wouldnt say thats fully correct. things like O2, H2O, CH4, are not acids or bases- but are they salts? i wouldnt say so. so that textbook must be really unspecific or really old.

and lets not forget that we can have acidic salts too :)

 

sodium hydrogen sulphate springs to mind for instance.

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