PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY IN BRIEF

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 401 Note:The same relations apply between the standard cell potential (electromotive force ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 402 while the activity of hydrogen ions is equal to one,aH+= 1, and the fugacity of hydrog ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 403 where Φoxis the potential of the anode (on which oxidation occurs), and Φredis the pot ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 404 11.8.10.1 Amalgam half-cell In this half-cell the electrode is formed by mercury in wh ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 405 Example A silver electrode coated with a layer of solid silver chloride (a silver chlo ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 406 Example An example is the standard hydrogen electrode, see11.8.6. Another example is a ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 407 Example An example is the so-called glass electrode. This half-cell is comprised of a ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 408 amalgam concentration cells comprised of two mercury electrodes containing a dis- sol ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 409 Example Consider the following galvanic cell Pt—H 2 (p)|HCl(a 1 )|AgCl(s)|Ag—Ag|AgCl(s ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 410 Solution The following reactions proceed in the cell: 1 2 H^2 (p^1 ) = H +(a) + e− oxi ...

CHAP. 11: ELECTROCHEMISTRY [CONTENTS] 411 11.9 Electrode polarization During electrolysis, the products of electrochemical react ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 412 Chapter 12 Basic terms of chemical physics Chemical physics is an impor ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 413 whereQis the electric charge given in coulombs,~ris the vector determin ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 414 12.1.2 Molar polarization and refraction Molar polarizationis another q ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 415 field far enough from the molecule can be regarded as caused by one dip ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 416 U Main unit:C^2 m J−^1. Note:Polarizabilityαis usually converted to the ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 417 Example The relative permittivity of chlorobenzene at 20◦C isε 1 = 5. 7 ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 418 surrounding environment. Its value for vacuum isμ 0 = 4π× 10 −^7 J s^2 ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 419 which is analogous to the Debye equation (12.9). In (12.14),αmis themag ...

CHAP. 12: BASIC TERMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS [CONTENTS] 420 calledabsorbance, and the ratio T= I′ I (12.18) calledtransmittance. U ...