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    An anode usually is an electrode of a polarized electrical device through which conventional current enters the device. This contrasts with a cathode...
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    The process is called anodizing because the part to be treated forms the anode electrode of an electrolytic cell. Anodizing increases resistance to...
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    A galvanic anode, or sacrificial anode, is the main component of a galvanic cathodic protection system used to protect buried or submerged metal structures...
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    An anode ray (also positive ray or canal ray) is a beam of positive ions that is created by certain types of gas-discharge tubes. They were first observed...
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    Electrode (redirect from Anode and cathode)
    depending on the type of cell. An electrode may be called either a cathode or anode according to the direction of the electric current, unrelated to the potential...
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    iron, oxidation takes place and that spot behaves as an anode. The electrons released at this anodic spot move through the metal to another spot on the object...
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    grid) is inserted between the cathode and the anode, the flow of electrons between the cathode and anode can be regulated by varying the voltage on this...
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    electron-emitting cathode and an anode. Electrons can flow in only one direction through the device: from the cathode to the anode (hence the name "valve", like...
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    battery, based on a titanium disulfide cathode and a lithium-aluminium anode, although it suffered from safety problems and was never commercialized...
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  • An anode-free battery (AFB) is one that is manufactured without an anode. Instead, it creates a metal anode the first time it is charged. The anode is...
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    cathode of the tube to release electrons, which are accelerated toward the anode and produce X-rays when they strike it. The Crookes tube was improved by...
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    explanation for them, and introduced terminology such as electrode, electrolyte, anode, cathode, anion, and cation. 1875 – Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered...
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    be protected to a more easily corroded "sacrificial metal" to act as the anode. The sacrificial metal then corrodes instead of the protected metal. For...
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    is a solution of a salt whose cation is the metal to be coated, and the anode (positive electrode) is usually either a block of that metal, or of some...
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    hot cathodes allowed for lower acceleration anode voltages and higher electron beam currents, since the anode now only accelerated the electrons emitted...
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    for an accelerated attack on the anode metal, which dissolves into the electrolyte. This leads to the metal at the anode corroding more quickly than it...
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  • are: a thermionic cathode, first and second grids, and a plate (called anode in British English). There are several varieties of tetrodes, the most common...
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  • coke to prevent the anode's oxidation by the oxygen involved. The cell produces gases at the anode, primarily CO2 produced from anode consumption and hydrogen...
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    "Anode Current Into Device"). Anode/cathode terminology is not directly tied to the electric potential of the terminals, generally in a battery anode has...
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  • Anodic protection (AP) otherwise referred to as Anodic Control is a technique to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the anode of an...
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    and the oxidation potential for the anode. E°cell = E°red (cathode) – E°red (anode) = E°red (cathode) + E°oxi (anode) For example, the standard electrode...
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    larger current of the anode-to-cathode path. In a two-lead thyristor, conduction begins when the potential difference between the anode and cathode themselves...
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    space charge region between the anode and screen grid to return anode secondary emission electrons to the anode when the anode potential is less than that...
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    precisely, the anode heel effect is a variation of the intensity of X-rays emitted by the anode depending on the direction of emission along the anode-cathode...
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  • Lithium–silicon batteries are lithium-ion batteries that employ a silicon-based anode and lithium ions as the charge carriers. Silicon-based materials, generally...
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  • A solid-state silicon battery or silicon-anode all-solid-state battery is a type of rechargeable lithium-ion battery consisting of a solid electrolyte...
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    electrons. The ions move from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte. At the same time, electrons flow from the anode to the cathode through an external...
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  • Anodic bonding is a wafer bonding process to seal glass to either silicon or metal without introducing an intermediate layer. Anodic bonding is commonly...
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    polarized capacitor whose anode or positive plate is made of a metal that forms an insulating oxide layer through anodization. This oxide layer acts as...
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    classified as a type of supercapacitor. It is called a hybrid because the anode is the same as those used in lithium-ion batteries and the cathode is the...
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