Electrolysis (2009 NSW HSC)


1) The diagram shows an electrolytic cell used to conserve an iron artefact recovered from the wreck of a ship that sank in the early 1800s.

(a)Explain how this process is used to conserve this iron artefact.
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b) Describe, with the aid of a diagram, how a nickel spoon could be silver-plated using equipment available in a school laboratory.
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