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Sorry deleted my other post. What I meant to say is that when oxidation occurs at the negative electrode what ion is losing the electrons?

I'm confused. How does oxidation work from the negative electrode? It only attracts cations. It would make sense if that cations can go through oxidation but what I thought is that it isn't possible or is it?

If this is the case why isn't the electrons going from positive to negative? I'm sorry to be ignorant. I don't understand and it's confusing.

Let's talk in lamens terms, I'm getting confused. To start of with oxidation is the removal of electrons or losing electrons. The only thing I can think of is that the anions gets attracted to a positive electrode and then oxidation occurs. Reduction happens at the other side the negative...

It's at the very bottom of the wikipedia page. The title is "terminology".

Thank you for your prompt reply. I couldn't get an answer from other websites :(. I don't understand how the anode is negative. I could be reading this wrong but on wikipedia it says that it's positive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_cell. If it was negative how does it go through...

Hi, I'm confused and need some help. What I thought happens in a battery is that the anode (the positive electrode) attracts the anions, it then goes through oxidation by taking the electrons and those electrons move through the closed circuit to the cathode and reduction is done. If that is...