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Offline soupastupid

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Potential
« on: May 16, 2010, 07:33:07 PM »
The potential of Cu electrode immersed in a 0.1 M CuSO4 solution (E0 = 0.339V) is:

I tried using

Nernst equation

.339 - .05916 log .1

and i get

.39816 V
but

this isnt one of choices given
how do i do this problem?
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Re: Potential
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2010, 03:03:23 AM »
Write full blown Nernst equation for the system.
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Re: Potential
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2010, 07:43:29 AM »
The way you appilied the equationis wrong. See the standard form of the equation.
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