Da. Tkalenko et Sa. Kudrya, ELECTROREDUCTION OF OXYGEN AND OXYANIONS IN MOLTEN ELECTROLYTES - PRECEDING AND SUCCEEDING CHEMICAL-REACTIONS, Russian journal of electrochemistry, 30(3), 1994, pp. 302-305
Data from literature and experimental findings on the cathodic reducti
on of oxygen and oxyanions in oxygen-containing melts are analyzed. It
is shown that oxyanions participate in the discharge step directly, w
ithout a slow preceding chemical reaction. Consideration is given to t
he side effects, due to which traditional approaches erroneously concl
ude that the process in question involves a preceding step.