The information below is something I have to study again and again to
get it right on the (very) few occasions I have the need to know. Your
explanation corresponds with what I picked up in various readings. My
interests are pretty eclectic and I am not sure where I got this info.,
but I think it was from R. O. Becker's book, or possibly a book about
magnetic therapy.
I think this mixup is something that ought to be cleared up once and
for all by someone, somewhere, and everyone should use the same
terminology.
Same with the "North" and "South" poles of the earth and the poles of
magnets. It's a mess at present, and it can't be in anyone's
interest!
It might be helpful to some list members to think about the label on an
ordinary D cell battery, and explain which way the electrons flow from
that cylinder. One could actually draw the flow with arrows on a dead
battery and keep it for handy reference.
I'll leave that to you, Dave!
JBB
On Saturday, Nov 11, 2006, at 04:03 Asia/Tokyo, Dan Nave wrote:
Not quite.
I think you're becoming confused because you are equating "electron
flow" with "conventional current."
They are not the same thing.
It is intuitively easier to understand electron flow as current flow,
however, at one time long ago someone had to decide which way current
flows and they chose the "wrong" way... So, engineers use
"conventional
current flow" which flows from plus (+) to minus (-), and technicians
and all the rest of us use "electron flow" which flows from minus (-)
to
plus (+) and call it current.
So, for our purposes, to recap, the minus side is the cathode, the
electrons stream out from it, and the anode collects them back up, and
is the plus side.
(Clear as mud, right? ;-))
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: bs clayton [mailto:kl_clay...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:58 AM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: CS>definitions
When I was in school, cations were the positively charged ions in a
rxn, anions were the negative.
Similarly, I thought the cathode was the plus side of the battery, the
anode the minus side.
So I looked it up in my World Book, and it says, and I quote,
"cathode, noun.
1. a negatively charged electrode. In an electrolytic cell or electron
tube, electrons flow from the cathode to the anode. The filament in
most
vacuum tubes is a cathode.
2. the positive terminal of a battery or cell that sends out current.
The carbon electrode in a dry cell is the cathode. Also, kathode. "
This must mean the same thing, but since I am only now having my
coffee,
it looks different.
To recap, the plus side is the cathode, the electrons stream out from
it, and the anode collects them back up, and is the minus side.
Is this right? Kathryn
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