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Redox potentials in acid
« on: August 20, 2013, 10:48:53 AM »
What is meant by the sentence: "The standard redox potential of the Fe3+/ Fe2+ system in 1 mol/dm3 HCl is 0.710 V."

I thought the couple Fe3+ + e-  ::equil:: Fe2+ would only have one fixed standard redox potential, E°. It might have a different redox potential E, calculated from the Nernst equation, if the reaction it is coupled with is H+ + e-  ::equil:: 1/2 H2, as in this case. But why does it say "standard redox potential" then? And why would this be any different from the normal value of E° for the couple Fe3+ + e-  ::equil:: Fe2+ ? (they cannot be the same because in the previous question we were just asked to work out E° for this same couple)

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