electrolyzation

The true composition of the salts thus formed by copper and cyanide of potassium has not yet been determined, but their relations to the battery and electrolyzation are peculiar.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

In concluding this division _on the intensity necessary for electrolyzation_, I cannot resist pointing out the following remarkable conclusion in relation to intensity generally.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

Hence I conclude that the nitric acid does not undergo electrolyzation, but the water only; that the oxygen at the _anode_ is always a primary result, but that the products at the _cathode_ are often secondary, and due to the reaction of the hydrogen upon the nitric acid.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

The new mode of discharge which electrolyzation presents must surely be an evidence of the _action of contiguous particles_; and as this appears to depend directly upon a previous inductive state, which is the same with common induction, it greatly strengthens the argument which refers induction in all cases to an action of contiguous particles also (1295, &c.).

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

_Contact of metals_ not necessary for electrolyzation, 879.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

This discharge, whether it be by conduction through a wire with infinite velocity (1652.), or by electrolyzation with its corresponding and exceeding slow motion (1651.), or by spark, and probably even by convection, produces a transverse magnetic action always the same in kind and direction.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

Though a compound formed by very powerful affinity, it yields up its elements under the influence of a very feeble electric current; and it is doubtful whether a case of electrolyzation can occur, where, being present, it is not resolved into its first principles.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

But, besides that, many which before resisted electrolyzation, now yielded up their elements.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

Yet we have it under perfect command; can evolve, direct, and employ it at pleasure; and when it has performed its full work of electrolyzation, it has only separated the elements of _a single grain of water_.

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

Thus nitric acid proves to be the best for this purpose; its superiority appears to depend upon its favouring the electrolyzation of the liquid in the cells of the trough upon the principles already explained

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829