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Offline Rutherford

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Re: Electrolysis
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2012, 11:18:28 AM »
I get the right answer if I use 2 electrons.

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Re: Electrolysis
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2012, 03:04:59 PM »
originally you said that "For 2 moles of water, 2 electrons are spent" and that you "got two times more moles than I should, to get the right answer"

now we figured out that for 2 moles of water, 4 electrons are spent and you still get the wrong answer.  this seems suspect.
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Re: Electrolysis
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2012, 04:32:49 AM »
For 2 moles of water, 2 electrons are spent, so I thought that for 1 mole of water 1 electron is spent and I used that z=1. I got two times more moles than I should, to get the right answer.
I used that z is 1 first time.

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