A Practical Hand-Book of Electro-Plating #270568

Before going further we will de fine a few of the terms we shall use. The two poles or conducting sur faces immersed in the liquid of a plating bath are called the anode and the kathode. The anode is the pole at which the current enters the bath and the [cathode that at which it -leaves. The liquid is called the electrolyte, and the operation in cluded under the general head of electrolysis.