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How a Fuel Cell Works

What takes place inside a fuel cell is electrolysis in reverse

Posted 01.01.2004 at 7:00 pm 0 Comments

Send a jolt of electric current through water—H₂O, in chemical shorthand—and each water molecule splits into its components: two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. That process is called electrolysis.

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