Zero electrode potential

To express the absolute values of single potentials is made difficult by the fact that the absolute zero electrode is not known, in respect of which other elements could be measured. It is, therefore, necessary to be satisfied with comparative values. These will be obtained by referring each potential to an exactly defined arbitrary standard electrode the potential of which is conventionally taken as zero. Such comparative potential valuos, of course, do not prevent the calculation of the EMF s of cells composed of two elements because in such instance the zero electrode potential proper appears in the corresponding equation twice once with a positive, and once with the negative sign, so being annuled in the result. 

The overall reaction in a cell is made up of the reactions occurring at the electrodes. It is reasonable to assume that the overall emf of the cell is also made up of contributions from each electrode. To put this on a quantitative and comparative basis it is necessary to couple each electrode to one standard electrode. The Pt(s)IH2(g) 1 atmlHCl(aq) (unit activity) electrode is such a standard and by definition is taken to have zero electrode potential. Every other electrode potential is relative to this standard hydrogen electrode which Is always written on the left of the cell. 

The seawater will be involved in the oxidation half-cell reduction (i.e., it acts as the reductant) with Eox -(0.600 V)= -0.600 V. When the seawater is in equilibrium with the iron system Eceii = rcd + ox = 0 or red = 0.600 V. For nonstandard concentrations at 298K, the total cell potential developed by the iron system when paired with the hydrogen half-cell is given by Eq. (6.26). However, the hydrogen half-cell generates zero electrode potential. Therefore, the electrode potential developed by the iron system is, from Eq. (6.26)... 

The most acceptable method of obtaining standard electrode potentials is by comparing tbe electrode potential of metals with the standard hydrogen electrode. Since the SHE has zero electrode potential at all temperatures by definition, the electrode potential of a metal is numerically equal to the emf of the cell formed by SHE and the metal electrode. In other words, the emf of the cell represents the electrode potential of the half cell formed by the metal with respect to the standard hydrogen electrode. In such a cell, reaction on the hydrogen electrode is oxidation and reaction on the other electrode is reduction. Such a cell can be expressed as ... 

Corrosion is not limited to relatively reactive materials like iron. In TiN, in spite of the rather capacitive nature of the metal-electrode interface for charge injection, corrosion occurs at zero electrode potential in distilled water. However, the reaction is very slow and practically does not result in considerable damage even after long periods of time [6]. Titanyl (TiO " ") ions are produced ... 

Reactions including corrosion occur even in distilled water around zero electrode potential, but they are very slow under these conditions. In the potential range from —200 to 10 mV against Ag AgCl electrode, TiN reacts with water itself to form titanyl (Ti Oj ) ions [11]. The half-reaction occurring at the TiN electrode is ... 

When in contact with other metals, pitting corrosion (galvanic corrosion) may occur with UN films [15]. This happens for example, if the invasive medium (for example NaCl solution) penetrates the UN layer due to its porosity and reaches the underlying metals. This corrosion happens also at zero electrode potential. 

Relative electrode c = 0 lf(Ec = 0) Energy of activation at zero electrode potential for cathodic reaction EAZEP-c... 

Coulometry. If it can be assumed that kinetic nuances in the solution are unimportant and that destmction of the sample is not a problem, then the simplest action may be to apply a potential to a working electrode having a surface area of several cm and wait until the current decays to zero. The potential should be sufficiently removed from the EP of the analyte, ie, about 200 mV, that the electrolysis of an interferent is avoided. The integral under the current vs time curve is a charge equal to nFCl, where n is the number of electrons needed to electrolyze the molecule, C is the concentration of the analyte, 1 is the volume of the solution, and F is the Faraday constant. 

The corrosion reaction may also be represented on a polarisation diagram (Fig. 10.4). The diagram shows how the rates of the anodic and cathodic reactions (both expressed in terms of current flow, I) vary with electrode potential, E. Thus at , the net rate of the anodic reaction is zero and it increases as the potential becomes more positive. At the net rate of the cathodic reaction is zero and it increases as the potential becomes more negative. (To be able to represent the anodic and cathodic reaction rates on the same axis, the modulus of the current has been drawn.) The two reaction rates are electrically equivalent at E , the corrosion potential, and the... 

However, if the pipeline has multiple drain points separated by distance V and the aim is that the pipeline electrode potential should just reach the protection potential at the mid-point (x = a/2), then is equal to (the overpotential required just to achieve the protection potential). At X = a/2 the current in the line is zero and (d nx/dx), 2 also zero. Thus ... 

To obtain comparative values of the strengths of oxidising agents, it is necessary, as in the case of the electrode potentials of the metals, to measure under standard experimental conditions the potential difference between the platinum and the solution relative to a standard of reference. The primary standard is the standard or normal hydrogen electrode (Section 2.28) and its potential is taken as zero. The standard experimental conditions for the redox... 

Almost all kinetic investigations on azo coupling reactions have been made using spectrophotometric methods in very dilute solutions. Uelich et al. (1990) introduced the method of direct injective enthalpimetry for such kinetic measurements. This method is based on the analysis of the zero-current potential-time curves obtained by the use of a gold indicator electrode with a surface which is periodically restored (Dlask, 1984). The method can be used for reactions in high (industrial) concentrations. 

Controlled-potential (potentiostatic) techniques deal with the study of charge-transfer processes at the electrode-solution interface, and are based on dynamic (no zero current) situations. Here, the electrode potential is being used to derive an electron-transfer reaction and the resultant current is measured. The role of the potential is analogous to that of the wavelength in optical measurements. Such a controllable parameter can be viewed as electron pressure, which forces the chemical species to gain or lose an electron (reduction or oxidation, respectively). 

The values of Hn and E are zero for water, by virtue of the constants 1.74 and 2.60. In these definitions, pKa refers to the acid ionization constant of the conjugate acid of the nucleophile, and E° to the standard electrode potential for the two-electron half-reaction ... 

If the concentration of the metal ion is not negligible at the potential of zero charge, the electrode potential varies linearly with log c according to Eq. (2) and there is no distinctive sign of the situation where the charge at the interface vanishes. The Nemst approach is obviously unsuitable for defining the nature and the amount of the charge at an interface. If the concentration of the metal ion at the pzc is small or very small, the behavior of the interface becomes that of a polarizable electrode. 

Equation (22) shows that since electrode potentials measure electronic energies, their zero level is the same as that for electronic energy. Equation (22) expresses the possibility of a comparison between electrochemical and UHV quantities. Since the definition of 0 is6 the minimum work to extract an electron from the Fermi level of a metal in a vacuum, the definition of electrode potential in the UHV scale is the minimum work to extract an electron from the Fermi level of a metal covered by a (macroscopic) layer of solvent. ... 

For an electrochemical cell consisting of a metal at the potential of zero charge in a solution of surface-inactive electrolyte and a reference electrode (let us assume that any liquid junction potential can be neglected), the electrode potential is given by (cf. Eq. (20)]... 

The results of experimental capacitance studies at two plane model pc-Bi electrodes were in agreement with these conclusions.2 266 Thus it has been shown that the potential of the diffuse-layer capacitance minimum for a pc electrode does not correspond to the zero charge potential of the whole surface, i.e., Zfipj Oat E n-... 

According to Sato et al.,6,9 the barrier-layer thickness is about 1.5 to 1.8 nm V-1, and increases to 3 nm around the oxygen-evolution potential. In Fig. 5, the scale of the electrode potential, Vrhe, is that of the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) in the same solution. The electrode potentials extrapolated from the linear plots of the potentials against the film thickness suggested that the potential corresponding to the barrier thickness equal to zero is almost equal to 0.0 V on the RHE scale, independent of the pH of the solution, and approximately agrees with the equilibrium potential for the oxide film formation of Fe or Fe. Therefore it is concluded that the anodic overpotential AE applied from the equilibrium potential to form the oxide film is almost entirely loaded with the barrier portion. 

Emersed electrode, 12 Energy scales and electrode potentials, 7 Energy transitions via polaronic and bipolaronic levels, 362 Engineering models, for fluorine generation cells, 539 Esin and Markov plots, 259-260 Experimental data comparison thereof, 149 on potential of zero charge, 56... 

It must be emphasized that the effective double layer is overall neutral, as the backspillover species (O6, Na6+) are accompanied by their compensating (screening) charge in the metal.32,3,35,36 It must also be clarified that this backspillover formed effective double layer is not in general at its pzc (point of zero charge). This happens only at a specific value of the electrode potential, as in aqueous electrochemistry.37... 

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