Hi crazyewok
I mean an electrolyte will raise or lower depending on witch electrolyte is, the hydroxide to hydronium proportion witch will cause its ph to change, this cause the conductivity of the water to raise behaving like in a plasma when you have ionized gas for example it will conduct electricity but the ions and electrons will stay together or cations and anions will stay together until you give it more electrostatic force than it can held to split them or at least hold them "far" from each other. Force = q1 q2/ R^2 . In the case of the plasma a gas for example wont become an ionized plasma until it reach a certain temperature because only high temperature can maintain the ions and electrons far apart enough for it to continue to be a ionized gas or plasma or a gas with free ions and or electrons. ( conductive )
If something like cesium or sodium gas is added will behave like an electrolyte because will tend to link with the gas partially ionizing it making an ionic bound.
In water the 1,24 voltage is the energy needed to free the ions from the (ionizing agent) let's take sodium hydroxide, than when its already in gas form the sodium will be able to ionize another molecule over and over again.
In water when you add electrolyte it will link with the covalent electrons what is commonly called ionic bound. That's why its said to be ionized. (presence of free ions free to move)
Thats why i said they are already separated but still combined together. Like a piece of copper, it has free electrons that allow the current to flow, the copper anyway will not broke apart because this free electrons are not part of the valence bound between one copper atom and other.
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