I've been reading about the alkaline fuel cell and the oxidation equation in my textbook was written as:
2H
2 (g) + 4OH
- (aq)
4H
2O (l) + 4e
-I was wondering why the coefficients haven't been simplified when they could have been. When I looked up other references, the same coefficients were used. This seems to contradict what I've learnt about equation writing in Chemistry so far. Thank you.