Qstnid -I-13- Write The Chemistry Of Recharging The Lead Storage Battery, Highlighting All The Materials That Are Involved During Recharging. - 03: Electrochemistry - Neet-xii-chemistry

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03: Electrochemistry

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Write the chemistry of recharging the lead storage battery, highlighting all the materials that are involved during recharging.

Ans : A lead storage battery consists of a lead anode, a grid of lead packed with lead oxide (PbO₂) as the cathode, and a 38% solution of sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) as an electrolyte.

When the battery is in use, the following cell reactions take place:

At anode:

At cathode:

The overall cell reaction is given by,

When a battery is charged, the reverse of all these reactions takes place.

Hence, on charging, present at the anode and cathode is converted into and respectively.