One form of the Nernst equation at about 298K is E = E° - (0.0592/n) log Q Suppose you mixed 2.0 mL of 0.01M AGNO3 with 4.0 mL of 1M NaCl. You then formed a voltaic cell using a silver strip with this test solution and using AGNO3 (1M)/Ag as the reference half cell. You found the voltage to be 0.61V. Using these results, what value should you report for the Ksp of AgCl? 01.5 x 10 11 O1 x 10 10 06.7 x 10 10 03 x 10 11 05x 1011

One form of the Nernst equation at about 298K is E = E° - (0.0592/n) log Q Suppose you mixed 2.0 mL of 0.01M AGNO3 with 4.0 mL of 1M NaCl. You then formed a voltaic cell using a silver strip with this test solution and using AGNO3 (1M)/Ag as the reference half cell. You found the voltage to be 0.61V. Using these results, what value should you report for the Ksp of AgCl? 01.5 x 10 11 O1 x 10 10 06.7 x 10 10 03 x 10 11 05x 1011

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Chapter17: Electrochemistry And Its Applications

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