Electrochemistry

EnglishchemistsJohn Daniell(left), andMichael Faraday(right), are both credited as founders of electrochemistry today.

Electrochemistryis a kind ofchemistrythat studies chemical reactions that use or makeelectricity.Reactions like this happen atelectrodeswhich are made from something that conducts electricity, and put in anelectrolyte.An electrolyte is asolutionthat hasionsin it.

Electrochemistry was "invented" at the same time as thevoltaic pile;the first kind of electricbattery.

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