How Does Faraday's Formula F=Ne Relate to Decomposing Monovalent Ions?

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In summary, Faraday's experiment involved discovering the relationship between the amount of electricity (F) needed to decompose 1 gram-ionic weight of monovalent ions and Avogadro's number (N) and the charge of an electron (e). This led to the concept of the Faraday Constant, which is approximately 96500 C/mol. This is different from the unit of capacitance, Farad (F), which is measured in Coulombs per Volt. The statement about decomposing ions refers to the amount of charge (N*e coulombs) needed for this process, known as a Faraday.
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my book writes about faraday's experiment, and I am totally clueless about this statement:

Faraday discovered that the same quanty of electricty, F, called the faraday and equal to about 96500C, always decomposes 1 gram-ionic weight of monovalet ions.

so he got some formula F=Ne, which N is avorgadro's number and e is the charge of an electron. but how does one farad = N e equate from the previous statement that my book made?
 
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The statement is not 1 Farad = Ne Coulombs. It's 1 Faraday = Ne. A monovalent ion is an ion which has one single positive or negative charge. Therefore, a mole of ions with + or - charge will have N*e coulombs of charge. This unit is called a Faraday, but is better known as the Faraday Constant, which is roughly 96500 C/mol.

A Farad is a unit of capacitance, and is mesured in Coulombs per Volt. In this case, Q = CV, and the Farad has the letter F, which is why I think you're getting confused.

Edit to make it more clear: A farad UNIT is denoted by [F], but Faraday's Constant is just F. It is much like how we denote capacitance the value by the letter C (as in Q = CV), but the unit [C] is a Couloumb. They are different and shouldn't be confused.
 
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what does it mean when it says " decomposes 1 gram-ionic weight of monovalet ions"?
 

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