half-cell

American  

[haf-sel, hahf-] / ˈhæfˌsɛl, ˈhɑf- /

noun

Electricity.

1. a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte.

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Etymology

Origin of half-cell

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The researchers stacked a perovskite solar cell and a silicon solar cell to create a dual-junction half-cell, providing an ideal base for the attachment of the cyanate-integrated perovskite solar cell.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

The PVPA-based cell also delivered almost twice the discharging capacity compared to the PAA-based cell after 200 cycles, with the PVPA-based half-cell achieving 1300 mAhg-1SiO after the same cycle count.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

Increasing concentrations of Cu2+ in the anode half-cell are balanced by an influx of NO − from the salt bridge, while a flow of Na+ into the cathode half-cell compensates for the decreasing Ag+ concentration.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

This is required when neither member of the half-cell’s redox couple can reasonably function as an electrode, which must be electrically conductive and in a phase separate from the half-cell solution.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

I prepare boxes with a bed of fresh, sifted earth to receive the larvae and the pupae, which I lodge each in a sort of half-cell formed by the imprint of my finger.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander