Gal Pos-cat Neg-an!!!!!!! (1 Viewer)

[mcsmells]

Gal Pos-cat Neg-an
It is the most extravagent and beautiful contribution towards the art of chemistry this millennia!
Developed and Copyrighted by the Legendary A-Desk
GAL POS-CAT NEG- AN
In a Galvanic cell, the positive electrode is the cathode, whilst the negative electrode is the anode! It is the opposite for an electrolytic cell!
On behalf of the A-Desk, I would like to extend to the rest of the world an invitation to use Gal Pos-Cat Neg-An in all of your chemistry study.
It is extremely beneficial and will aid all of you in your study of the chemistry course
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo A-Desk!

 

[Emma-Jayde]

^^^ What? ^^^

 

[Dreamerish*~]

Thank you.

However it might be better not to remember the anode and cathode as being negative or positive because you can easily get confused.

An ox (anode = oxidation) is quite easy to remember.

As for the signs, Gal Pos-cat Neg-an is great. That's not the way I remembered it though. I did so many exercised in electrochem that it's kind of etched in - anode is negative in Galvanic cells but positive in electrolytic cells.

 

[Sepulchres]

^^^ What? ^^^

Yea. Vhat?

 

[rama_v]

Thank you.

However it might be better not to remember the anode and cathode as being negative or positive because you can easily get confused.

An ox (anode = oxidation) is quite easy to remember.

As for the signs, Gal Pos-cat Neg-an is great. That's not the way I remembered it though. I did so many exercised in electrochem that it's kind of etched in - anode is negative in Galvanic cells but positive in electrolytic cells.

Yeah..I always remember it through physics - the cathode is negative in the cathode ray tube, and because i know that you put current into a cathode ray tube its similar to the electrolytic cell. And its just the opposite for the galvanic cell

 

[Jumbo Cactuar]

I remember;

oxidation and anode --> start with vowels
reduction and cathode --> start with consonants

and reduction and oxidation in terms of oxidation number.

 

[Casmira]

i dont even know what a vowel or consonant is, so i just do an ox saw the red cat

 

[kami]

It seems like a good find, but I prefer 'Red Cat' and 'An Ox' to help remember, and if I want to remember which one is positive or negative I just apply some logic to 'OILRIG'. And rama_v is it seriously that related? Because when I did Physics my teacher said to me "If you use your cathode definitions from Physics in Chemistry, you will fail, and you will die" - well maybe not the "die" bit but you get the point.

 

[physician]

^^^ What? ^^^

Developed and Copyrighted by the Legendary A-Desk
GAL POS-CAT NEG- AN
In a Galvanic cell, the positive electrode is the cathode, whilst the negative electrode is the anode! It is the opposite for an electrolytic cell!

make sense?

 

[Emma-Jayde]

make sense?

I just got lost with the whole Gal pos-cat Neg-an thing. I don't see any logical way to remember that.
I trust in my red cat and an ox, and oilrig.

 

[rama_v]

It seems like a good find, but I prefer 'Red Cat' and 'An Ox' to help remember, and if I want to remember which one is positive or negative I just apply some logic to 'OILRIG'. And rama_v is it seriously that related? Because when I did Physics my teacher said to me "If you use your cathode definitions from Physics in Chemistry, you will fail, and you will die" - well maybe not the "die" bit but you get the point.

haha nah not really, just somethign i remember it by, i must be weird lol

 

[The_highwayman]

JUST A QUESTION THAT ALWAYS STUMPS ME:
With the An Ox/Red Cat rule, does that mean that the anode is oxidised? Or is it the Oxidant? similarly with the cathode.

Thanks!

 

[rama_v]

JUST A QUESTION THAT ALWAYS STUMPS ME:
With the An Ox/Red Cat rule, does that mean that the anode is oxidised? Or is it the Oxidant? similarly with the cathode.

Thanks!

It just means that oxidation occurs there. I think sometimes the anode can be oxidised in certain cases, depending on what its made of and its potential. Same goes with cathode