 Water Electrolysis under a Magnetic Field

 The cell voltage was also measured in acidic solution 0.05 M H2SO4 as shown in Fig. 4.
 Its dependence on the electrode space was similar to the result with 0.36 M KOH. The voltage
drop in- creased with increasing magnetic field intensity.
 The magnetic field effect was smaller than that in the alkaline solutions
 IR-drop.— EIR between a working and a counter electrode was determined by the current
interrupter method.13
 After the current had been interrupted instantaneously during the galvanostatic electrolysis,
the electrode potential changed drastically, accompanied with the immediate falloff of EIR
between the electrodes.
 Electrode potential.— The working electrode potential was measured against the Pd reference
electrode.
 Hydrogen and oxygen gas evolution phenomena were investigated, respectively
 Hydrogen electrode potential.— Figure 7 shows the electrode potential for the hydrogen
evolution, EH, at several current densities in 0 and 5 T.

 The potential slightly decreases with increasing in the current density.

 The potential, EH, consists of the equilibrium potential, the kinetic over potential for H2
evolution
 Oxygen electrode potential.— Figure 8a shows the electrode potential for the oxygen evolution,
EO.
 EO is apparently reduced by superimposing the magnetic field