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[Blake_Katsev_2E]

How would Volta have ordered the following metals, if he put the most
strongly reducing metal f rst: Fe, Ag, Au, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, Al?

Why would they be ordered from lowest to highest reduction potentials? Shouldnt a higher potential mean stronger reducing power of the metal?

[Preston_Dang_1B]

This is because reducing power is the ability of an element to cause another element to be reduced, in other words, it is asking for the best reducing agent out of all of the elements listed. This means that the element that has the lowest reduction potential would have the higher reducing power because it is more likely to be oxidized and lose electrons so that another element can be reduced.

Hope this helps!