explain th th electrolysis in deatail and three uses of electrolysis
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The process of electrolysis has many important industrial applications. Some of them are as follows:
Electrolysis is used in industry for the production of many metals and non-metals (e.g., aluminium, magnesium, chlorine, and fluorine).
Electrolysis is commonly employed for coating one metal with another. The method of coating one metal with another using an electric current is called electroplating. The general set-up used for electroplating an object
The method involved in electroplating is as follows:
- The object to be coated is made the cathode.
- The metal to be deposited on the object is taken in the form of an electrode and made the anode.
- The electrolyte contains dissolved salts of the metal to be coated.
- Ions of the metal (which are positively charged) are attracted by the cathode and therefore move towards the object and get deposited on it.
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