{"term":{"id":"03399","title":"kinetic current","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - kinetic current","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.K03399","code":"K03399","status":"current","also defines":"<em>also defines<\/em>: surface reaction, volume reaction","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"A faradaic current that corresponds to the reduction or oxidation of an electroactive substance formed by a prior chemical reaction from another substance that is not electroactive, and that is partially or entirely controlled by the rate of that reaction. The reaction may be heterogeneous, occurring at an electrode-solution interface (surface reaction), or it may be homogeneous, occurring at some distance from the interface (volume reaction).","contexts":[],"links":[{"term":"chemical reaction","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/C01033"},{"term":"electroactive substance","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E01940"},{"term":"faradaic current","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/F02321"},{"term":"interface","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03082"},{"term":"oxidation","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/O04362"}],"sources":["Orange Book, 2nd ed., p. 55 (https:\/\/media.iupac.org\/publications\/analytical_compendium\/)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/K03399\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/K03399\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/K03399\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'kinetic 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.K03399","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-05-11T23:29:08+00:00"}}