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Offline dudebuddyguy

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Re: Which reactions will not occur spontaneously?
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2013, 04:49:16 PM »
There are usually tables with standard Gibbs energies. Alternatively, since these are oxidation/reduction reactions, you can use standard oxidation and reduction potentials, which are widely available.  Using the Nernst equation you can easily convert these to Gibbs energies.

....What? I have no clue what a Nernst equation is.

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Re: Which reactions will not occur spontaneously?
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2013, 09:45:33 PM »
It sounds like you just need to start reading a general chemistry book.  There is really only so much we can do to help until you have a solid foundation to work with.
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?  - Richard P. Feynman

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Re: Which reactions will not occur spontaneously?
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2013, 11:00:11 AM »
Update: I just checked off every single reaction as non-spontaneous and wrote a quick note for the teacher who does the marking, letting her know that I've never done this type of math before.

So yeah....

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