About Faraday's experiment?

[Aafia]

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In chemistry book I read that faraday observed that when two metal plates called electrodes, are placed in an electrolytic solution and an electric current is passed, the solution breaks up into charged particles called ions" but I am confusing that if it was a electrolytic solution then it already had ions. What it mean that it breaks up into ions .