The process of dissolving or breaking down a solid material into ions or smaller particles using electrical current.
From electro- + dissolution (from Latin dissolutio, from dissolvere 'to loosen'). This technical term emerged in electrochemistry to describe what happens at electrodes when electrical current breaks chemical bonds.
Electrodissolution is why metal electrodes gradually disappear in electroplating baths—the electrical current literally tears apart the atoms and ions dissolve into solution, eventually redepositing elsewhere.
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