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Investigating the factors that affect the amount of copper deposited during the electrolysis of copper (II) sulphate solution.
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Investigating the factors that affect the amount of copper deposited during the electrolysis of copper (II) sulphate solution Introduction: This investigation will examine one of the factors that affect the amount off copper deposited during the electrolysis of copper (II) sulphate solution. Electrolysis is the decomposition of an ionic solution by electricity. The electricity splits ionic chemical compounds into separate components, for example, copper chloride can be split into Cu metal and Cl gas. Electrolysis is used to extract reactive metals from solutions of their ores. It is an extremely powerful way of splitting a compound using electricity, but it is very expensive and is only used for metals higher up in the reactivity series. These metals only way of extraction is by electrolysis as they are more reactive than carbon. These metals are Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Aluminium and sodium. This is a simple diagram of an electrolysis cell: When the battery is...
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