Industrial production of pure metals from their salt solutions, or molten salts and the manufacture of pure gases like H₂, O₂, Cl₂ etc. by electrolytic methods is an important aspect in electrolysis studies. Faraday's laws of electrolysis govern the quantitative side of such studies in which the amount of material deposited may be directly related to the amount of charge passed through a solution. The conducting power of solutions of electrolytes is amenable for study by applying ohm's law to electrolytic solutions under suitable experimental conditions.
One litre of a 0.1 M aqueous solution of silver nitrate was electrolysed between silver electrodes for two hours using a current strength of two amperes. The molar ionic conductance of silver ion, nitrate ion at infinite dilution at 298 K are 62.0 × 10^-4 and 72 × 10^-4 Sm² moI^-1 respectively (Assume that the ionic conductances do not vary significantly in dilute solutions). At. mass, of Ag = 108.