how is the drift velocity or time important for us if i keep telling that as you take electrons out of one electrode you must add electrons to the other side?
well if we start to create ions with greater than 1 charge it would suffer a greater acceleration...
to create population inversion is required that the molecules arent in thermal equilibrium, it must be disrupted...
the kinetic energy of a molecule is dependent on its mass and velocity.. there are some degrees of freedom also meaning the molecules also casn absorb energy by rotating and stretching vibrating.. this is measured as heat...
when we apply a high voltage to one of the electrodes the electric field would cause ions to move and consequently a current to flow on an external circuit... ions movement as there is a resistance and dielectric constant there create a voltage drop..
if sodium hydroxide is in water it ionizes the water molecules transforming it into free ions.. we can pass a current because at one electrode as oxygen is liberated and sodium try to get plated to the stainless steel, but as its more stable on water it ionize another molecule liberating hydrogen and stay in the solution.. .
there is other like potassium hydroxide that would do the same...
acids would go the other way and the reaction would be at more anodic... correct me if i´m confusing please..
the greater is the number of charge carriers the less is the speed achievable by the ions..