DEFINITION OF AN ANODE. âAn ingot of sacrificial metal attached to the underwater hull of a narrowboat or canal boat which corrodes due to electrolysis more readily than the hull and propeller. Magnesium anodes are used for boats in fresh water.Aluminium anodes are used for boats in brackish water.nodes will offer protection based on the Noble Series of metals. The theory is that by attaching a piece of metal to the hull that is more reactive than the hull itself then this piece of metal will corrode first. For our inland waters we use sacrificial magnesium anodes for protection.
Pure water is an insulator, since it doesn't contain any charged particles to act as conductors. However, water is an excellent solvent for charged particles like salts, so it's unheard of to find pure water in nature.
Capacitance. According to our simplification, the inside and the outside of the cell are both solutions of various salts in water. As opposed to the cell membrane, salt water constitutes quite a good conductor because there are free ions that can transport electrical charges.What we have then is two conductors (the inside and the outside of the cell), separated by an insulator (the membrane).ells and cell membranes. All cells are surrounded by a cell membrane. We will neglect all the complexities of the metabolic and structural apparatus found in the interior of the cell and simply consider it as a little bag, formed by the cell membrane, and filled with saline (i.e., water with ions dissolved in it).