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What are the products of hydrogen and oxygen?
Electricity
,
water vapor
What do you call a simple energy generation with little to no carbon footprint?
Emissions-free power
What energy does the cell give to produce electrical energy?
Chemical energy
Where does the chemical energy of a fuel cell come from?
Hydrogen gas
and
Oxidizing agent
What type of chemical reaction do electrochemical reactions use to produce electricity?
Redox Reaction
What does hydrogen put out after an electrochemical reaction?
Water vapor
and
electricity
Aside from hydrogen, what do fuel cells require to function?
Oxygen
Who first demonstrated fuel cell in 1839?
Sir William Grove
What novel form of electric cell did William Robert
Grove
?
Grove
Cell
When did Sir William Grove develop the first fuel cell?
1842
What is the first fuel cell called?
Gas Voltaic Battery
What comprises the gas voltaic battery?
Hydrogen
,
oxygen
,
water
What is the negative post of the fuel cell?
Anode
What is the electrode where the oxidation takes place?
Anode
What conducts the electrons that are freed from the
hydrogen molecules
so that they can be used in an
external
circuit
?
Anode
What are etched channels disperse hydrogen gas over the surface of catalysts?
Anode
What is the positive post of the cell?
Cathode
What conducts the electrons back from the external circuit to the catalyst, where they can recombine with the hydrogen ions and oxygen to form water?
Cathode
Where the does the cell picks up electrons and then travels through the electrolyte to the anode?
Cathode
What are etched channels that distribute to the surface of the catalyst?
Cathode
What are chemical substances that increase the rate of the reaction?
Catalysts
What is a special material that facilitates the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen?
Catalysts
What is the usual composition of fuel cell
catalysts
?
Platinum powder
What makes rough and porous texture essential in catalysts?
Maximizes
surface area
exposed to
hydrogen
and
oxygen
What is a substance that conducts charged ions from one electrode to the other in a fuel cell?
Electrolyte
What is known as the
proton
exchange
membrane
?
Electrolyte
What does electrolyte conduct?
positively charged ions
What does
electrolyte
do to electrons?
Block