The facility of passivation for zinc anode is dependent upon the measures of immersing area of the electrodes.
The passivation voltage and the electricity at the very moment of passivation became increased in accordiance with the enlargings of the surface area of the anode in a dilute solution of zinc sulphric acid. The more, in this experiment, the surface areas of the cathode became large, the less measured was the passivation voltage. On the contrary, the electricity, after passivation, became, on one hand, slightly increased in the same situation, when, on the other hand, the surface area of the anode was smaller compareing with that of the cathode, the electricity became slightly decreased.
The reason for these difficulties of passivation in accordiance with the enlargingness of the surface areas of the anode in an active condition in the aqueous solution of electrolytes of the same quantity is accounted for by the coincident fact of this experiment with the theory of electric decomposion, that is, a negative compound in the solution has its hard tendency, in an action of passvation, to combine with on the surface of the anode in proportional to the enlargingness of the anode. This leads us to conclude the evident fact that the electritic decomposition in the aqueous solution of electrolytes takes a leading part in the occurance of the passivating phenomenoa.
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