What is a Faraday? [ENDORSED]

[Hammad Khan 2B]

I don’t really grasp the concept of what a faraday is and what it is used for. If anyone can help elaborate that would be great.

[Sungyoon_Baek_1A]

A Faraday is the charge of I mole of electrons (the units are coulomb/mol therefore we see that it is charge (coulomb) per mol), but in practicality it is a constant that makes calculations easier to work with and more manageable. The constant value is 1F = 96,485 C/mol

[Aditya Pimplaskar 1J]

To add on to the previous reply, Faraday's constant is derived by dividing Avogadro's number (number of electrons in 1 mole) by the number of electrons that make up one Coulomb. This yields the 96485 C/mol from the previous response and also provides an explanation for its units.

[Chem_Mod]

I spent some time covering this in class today as it is a common question.

Great answers!