{"id":20309,"date":"2017-03-03T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20309"},"modified":"2017-03-03T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:27:42","slug":"electrochemistry-cells-and-batteries-anode-vs-cathode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electrochemistry-cells-and-batteries-anode-vs-cathode\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrochemistry: cells and batteries:  anode vs cathode"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explains which terminal is the anode, which is the cathode, as well as polarity.<\/h1>\n<p>In terms of electrochemistry, oxidation occurs at the anode; reduction occurs at the cathode.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps less obvious is the answer to the question, &#8220;Which is positive and which is negative?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the cathode, reduction is occurring, so it consumes negative charge.  Therefore, the cathode is positive.<\/p>\n<p>At the anode, oxidation is occuring, so negative charge is being liberated.  Therefore, the anode is negative.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, Charles E.  <u>Chemistry<\/u>, sixth ed.  Belmont:  Wadsworth, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explains which terminal is the anode, which is the cathode, as well as polarity. In terms of electrochemistry, oxidation occurs at the anode; reduction occurs at the cathode. Perhaps less obvious is the answer to the question, &#8220;Which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electrochemistry-cells-and-batteries-anode-vs-cathode\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electrochemistry: cells and batteries:  anode vs cathode<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1023],"tags":[2158,2159,2156,2157],"class_list":["post-20309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-electricity","tag-anode","tag-cathode","tag-which-terminal-is-negative","tag-which-terminal-is-positive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20309\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}