Preferred Label : instantaneous current;
IUPAC definition : At a dropping electrode, the total current that flows at the instant when a time t
has elapsed since the fall of the preceding drop. At any other electrode, the total
current that flows at the instant when a time t has elapsed since the beginning of
an electrolysis. The instantaneous current is usually time-dependent and may have
the character of an adsorption, catalytic, diffusion, double-layer, or kinetic current,
and may include a migration current. A plot of the dependence of instantaneous current
on time is commonly called an ' i i-t /i curve'.;
Origin ID : I03062;
See also
At a dropping electrode, the total current that flows at the instant when a time t
has elapsed since the fall of the preceding drop. At any other electrode, the total
current that flows at the instant when a time t has elapsed since the beginning of
an electrolysis. The instantaneous current is usually time-dependent and may have
the character of an adsorption, catalytic, diffusion, double-layer, or kinetic current,
and may include a migration current. A plot of the dependence of instantaneous current
on time is commonly called an ' i i-t /i curve'.
