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n: 1. one of two electrodes in an electrolytic cell;represented as the negative terminal of the cell, it is the area from which electrons flow. In a primary cell, it is the electrode that is wasted or eaten away. 2. in cathodic protection systems, an electrode to which a positive potential of electricity is applied, or a sacrificial anode, which protects a structure by forming one electrode of an electric cell.

the positively charged site in a cell. Oxidation site. The site of metal loss in corrosion.

n: a means of preventing the destructive electrochemical process of corrosion of a metal object by using it as the cathode of a cell with a sacrificial anode. Current at least equal to that caused by the corrosive action is directed toward the object, offsetting its electrical potential.

impressed current that offsets the current produced in a corrosion cell and reduces corrosion.

n: in cathodic protection, a sacrificial anode that produces current flow through galvanic action. See sacrificial anode.

sacrificial anode.

n: in cathodic protection. anodes made from metals whose galvanic potentials render them anodic to steel in an electrolyte. They are used up. or sacrificed.

a metal slug, lower in the electromotive series than steel that is hard wired to the casing and buried in a bed of wet soil or below the surface of the water. The corrosion cell in the well then transfers the current to the new anode and the steel in the