02321 IUPAC Gold Book - faradaic current 10.1351/goldbook.F02321 F02321 current 1 A current corresponding to the reduction or oxidation of some chemical substance. The net faradaic current is the algebraic sum of all the faradaic currents flowing through an indicator or working electrode. chemical substance https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01039 indicator https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/I03006 oxidation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/O04362 working electrode https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/W06686 PAC, 1985, 57, 1491. 'Recommended terms, symbols, and definitions for electroanalytical chemistry (Recommendations 1985)' on page 1496 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198557101491) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/F02321/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/F02321/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/F02321/plain Citation: 'faradaic current' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.F02321 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T12:45:27+00:00