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The 27th William Blum Lecture, The Plating Solution and the Human Body: Complex Electrochemical Systems

A thesis I would like to propose is that a plating solution is much like the human body (Table 1). The body is nothing more than a gigantic complex of molecules and chemicals working together in harmony; so is a plating solution. The body needs water, and so does a plating solution. We have to feed our bodies and we also have to feed plating solutions. We often have to remove impurities from a plating solution and this is done by pumping, filtering and carbon treating. The body has an excellent pump and many filters plus built-in carbon treaters to remove impurities. A plating solution is operative only when we pass electrical current through it. The muscles in our bodies also behave as a response to electrical action with waves of electrochemical activity traveling down our nerves and propelling our muscles into action. Lastly, chelating or sequestering agents are used for many purposes in both plating solutions and the body.

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