A student conducts an investigation to find out what is produced during the electrolysis of sodium sulfate.
Describe how the student could carry out an investigation, and show (using ions) what is given off at each electrode.
Wearing safety ______________________ , add sodium sulfate ______________________ to a beaker, and connect two ______________________ electrodes (make sure they do not touch) to a power supply.
Completely fill two small test tubes with sodium sulfate solution and position a test tube over each electrode, then turn on the power supply and observe what happens at each electrode.