Shorthand Notation for Electrochemical Cells

Shorthand Notation for Electrochemical Cells Although Figure 11.5 provides a useful picture of an electrochemical cell, it does not provide a convenient representation. A more useful representation is a shorthand, or schematic, notation that uses symbols to indicate the different phases present in the electrochemical cell, as well as the composition of each phase. A vertical slash ( ) indicates a phase boundary where a potential develops, and a comma (,) separates species in the same phase, or two phases where no potential develops. Shorthand cell notations begin with the anode and continue to the cathode. The electrochemical cell in Figure 11.5, for example, is described in shorthand notation as... 

Membrane Potentials Ion-selective electrodes, such as the glass pH electrode, function by using a membrane that reacts selectively with a single ion. figure 11.10 shows a generic diagram for a potentiometric electrochemical cell equipped with an ion-selective electrode. The shorthand notation for this cell is... 

What are the anodic, cathodic, and overall reactions responsible for the potential in the electrochemical cell shown here Write the shorthand notation for the electrochemical cell. 

Potentiometric electrochemical cells are constructed such that one of the half-cells provides a known reference potential, and the potential of the other half-cell indicates the analyte s concentration. By convention, the reference electrode is taken to be the anode thus, the shorthand notation for a potentiometric electrochemical cell is... 

Because there are so many possible electrochemical cells, a shorthand notation for representing their specific chemistry has been devised. This cell notation lists the metals and ions involved in the reaction. A vertical line,, denotes a phase boundary, and a double line, H, represents the salt bridge. The anode is always written on the left, and the cathode on the right ... 

Cell notation (13.2) Shorthand notation for an electrochemical cell that shows the electrodes, gases, and solutions in the cell reaction as well as the phase boundaries separating them. 

Describe the role of non-fVwork in electrochemical systems. Define the roles of the anode, cathode, and electrolyte in an electrochemical cell. Given shorthand notation for an electrochemical cell, identify the oxidation and reduction reactions. Use data for the standard half-cell potential for reduction reactions, E°, to calculate the standard potential of reaction E. Apply the Nernst equation to determine the potential in an electrochemical cell given a reaction and reactant concentrations. 

Chemists frequently use a shorthand notation to describe electrochemical cells. The cell in Figure 18-2a, for example, is described by... 

Hitherto when we have described an electrochemical cell we have drawn a picture such as is shown in Figs 1.8 or 1.9. However this is a tedious business which can be avoided by the introduction of a shorthand notation which avoids the need for a pictorial representation. For example the cell shown in Fig. 1.9 is described by the following notation ... 

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