Carbon dioxide reduction at polycrystalline gold cathode in 0.1 M solution has been re‐examined. Like two other group Ib metal cathodes, Ag and Cu, the Au electrode is shown to undergo progressive deactivation during the electrolysis runs. A periodic, electrochemical activation treatment of the gold electrode is described.
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Kędzierzawski et al. (1994) studied this question.