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A non-carbon, metal-based, high temperature resistant, electrically conductive and electrochemically active anode of a cell for the production of aluminum has a metal-based substrate to which an adherent coating is applied prior to its immersion into the electrolyte and start up of the electrolysis by connection to the positive current supply. The coating is obtainable from one or more layers applied from: a liquid solution, a dispersion in a liquid or a paste, a suspension in a liquid or a paste, and a pasty or non-pasty slurry, and combinations thereof with or without one or more further applied layers, with or without heat treatment between two consecutively applied layers when at least two layers are applied. The coating is after final heat treatment electrically conductive and during operation in the cell electrochemically active for the oxidation of oxygen ions present at the surface of the anode to form monoatomic nascent oxygen which as such or as biatomic molecular gaseous oxygen oxidizes or further oxidizes the surface of the coating, or part or most of the coating or the surface of the substrate, to form a barrier to the ionic and gaseous oxygen and even a barrier to the nascent monoatomic oxygen, the coating having a slow dissolution rate in the fluoride-containing electrolyte.

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