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What happens when electric current is passed through potassium chloride

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Answered by rd4821652
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A current will electrolyze molten KCl, liberating liquid potassium (unless the salt’s temperature is > 1052 K, the boiling point of potassium) and gaseous chlorine.

If you are referring to a water solution of KCl—please be specific, it’s important—you get KOH solution, plus a mixture of O₂ and Cl₂ escaping the solution at the anode, plus hydrogen escaping at the cathode.

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Potassium chloride must be heated until it is moltenbefore it will conduct electricity. Electrolysis separates the molten ionic compound into its elements. The reactions at each electrode are called half equations. ... Chloride ions lose electrons (oxidation) to form chlorine atoms.

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