True or false: the standard scale
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The standard hydrogen electrode is taken as zero.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- E°(cell) is cathode potential minus anode potential.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- E°(cell) is anode minus cathode.
- Statement is true
- Yes
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- Ag⁺/Ag has a higher standard potential than K⁺/K.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- K⁺/K has a positive standard potential.
How the potential scale is anchored. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 2 Electrochemistry.