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Title of the Experience
The electrolytes
Name of the teacher
Roberto Checchi
Country where it took place
Italy
School typology
Vocational School
Thematic Area
Chemistry
Experience typology
Teaching in class, Laboratory, Online Learning
Type of contact
Direct
Description of the Experience
Electrochemistry is one of the numerous problematic subjects for students, but laboratorial activities are very useful and also allow the comprehension of the dreaded redox reactions.
The experience is based on an electrical network with 4 different solutions of water: pure, with NaCl, with HCl and with NaOH. In the case of the pure water the electricity is not conducted unlike the other cases because the compounds are electrolytes and they dissociate completely into the water.
If we connect a light bulb to the electrical network the phenomenon makes clearly.
Increasing the quantity of solute within the solution we can observe the heightening of the luminous intensity of the light bulb. This explains the relevance of the electrolytic solutions.
This experience allows to carry out the reactions in which one element tarnishes while the other reduces due to the transferring of electrons.
This teaching process is not without difficulties, but it makes the key concept understandable by everyone.

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Date: 2014.10.16

Posted by Nevenka Kostova (Bulgaria)

This is an interesting practice that allows students to visualize the invisible charged particles involved in the process of illumination of the bulb. Namely the change of light intensity responds to what are the used agents.

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