The high-volage penonena in aluminum Molten chloride electrolytes
The electrical conductivity of the molten chloroaluminates NaAlCl4 and KAlCl4 increases with increasing of electrical field strength and reach the limiting values (the Wien effect) which surpass their usual low-voltage conductivity up to 200 and 700 percent respectively. These results have been obtained on the base of analysis of the microsecond high-voltage discharges in the melts (the Wien effect). After the high-voltage pulses discharges having been completed in the melts, their conductivity and electrolyze current have been found to rise up to 50% and their decomposition potentials has found to decrease more than 20% (the “memory effect”). The relaxation time of a non-equilibrium state reaches 5 minutes and more.