Electrochemistry: Crash Course Chemistry #36
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Aaah, the controlled flow of electrons, making possible laptops and phones and cars and pacemakers. Batteries, just like everything else in life, is just chemistry raised to the power of awesome. The kind of chemistry that happens inside of a battery is called electrochemistry because it involves reactions that produce or consume free electrons. Specifically, they are oxidation or redox reactions, the ones where electrons are exchanged. I've told you about redox reactions before and if you haven't seen that episode yet, you should probably go watch that before you watch this. Don't worry, I will still be here when you get back. Now, when the flow of electrons in these kinds of reactions are sent through a conductor, like a piece of metal, it c...
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Aaah, the controlled flow of electrons, making possible laptops and phones and cars and pacemakers. Batteries, just like everything else in life, is just chemistry raised to the power of awesome. The kind of chemistry that happens inside of a battery is called electrochemistry because it involves reactions that produce or consume free electrons. Specifically, they are oxidation or redox reactions, the ones where electrons are exchanged. I've told you about redox reactions before and if you haven't seen that episode yet, you should probably go watch that before you watch this. Don't worry, I will still be here when you get back. Now, when the flow of electrons in these kinds of reactions are sent through a conductor, like a piece of metal, it c...
