Electrolysis hydrocloric acid and both of the electrode uses a platinium electrode ... what will happen to both of the electrode?

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Gustavo Adkins

3 October, 20:42

Electrolysis hydrocloric acid and both of the electrode uses a platinium electrode ... what will happen to both of the electrode?

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Jadyn Stout · Answer 1

Hydrogen gas is evolved at the cathode and chlorine gas at the anode.

Explanation:

The solution will ionise. Hydrogen ions, H+, will migrate to the negative cathode (where the current leaves the solution and chloride ions Cl - will migrate the the positive anode.