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Professor Hasok Chang
Friday 16 October 2015, 20:00-21:00
Volta’s battery: electrochemistry, but not as we know it
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Hasok Chang
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 16 October 2015, 20:00 - 21:00
- 📍 Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW
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Andrea Chlebikova
Abstract
Electrochemistry began with Volta’s invention of the battery, announced in 1800. It was very easy to make Voltaic batteries, but there was a great deal of controversy about how they worked. The theoretical difficulties are understandable, especially considering that no modern concepts of ions and electrons existed for many decades after Volta’s work. Surprisingly, there are also puzzling aspects of the operation of Voltaic cells even when we apply modern concepts. These points will be illustrated by reference to the historical sources and reproductions of past experiments.
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