R3.2 Electrochemical cells

What happens when electrons are transferred?This sub-topic follows on neatly from the last one on oxidation and reduction and in particular the activity series. If you did some practical work where students added metals to solutions containing the ions of other metals then they would have been able to deduce an activity series experimentally. What they probably did not notice was that in the cases where a reaction does...

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