The diagram that follows represents a molecular view of a process occurring at an electrode in a voltaic cell.

(b) Is the electrode the anode or cathode?

Video transcript

Hello everyone. So in this illustration below this is a molecular atomic view of a process in which the voltaic cell electrode is at the cathode or the unknown. So the molecular view, our atomic view represents the all station of metal atoms on the electrode surface of a voltaic cell, the uniform and closely packed sphere which you see in this part of the diagram, it fits into the molecular atomic description of a elemental solid. The arrow shows the direction of movement of the atoms from the orderly arrangement at the solid surface into the solution as carry ons for these arrows. Right over here, the atoms were dislodged from the arrangement as they lost electrons. Since the process is oxidation, the electrode involved is going to be the anodes. So the oxidation halfway or half reaction always occurs at the node, so that my final answer is that this occurs at the anodes and that is going to be my final answer for the problem.