Electrode

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When Platinum is an electrode, as it is carrying electrons, on an atomic level is it getting reduced and oxidized continuously as electrons are passed from atom to arom

[McKenna_4A]

The Platinum electrode isn't reduced or oxidized, It is simply used as a pathway for the electrons to enter solution (and reduce FE3+, with respect to the example in class.

[ABombino_2J]

The Pt electrode simply acts as an inert conductor to facilitate e- transfer.

[Nathan Nakaguchi 1G]

Platinum is not very reactive, so it is just a means of getting electrons from one source to the next for the actual electron transfer to occur.

[Cooper Baddley 1F]

The Pt is more of a bridge for the electron that allows it to get from one side to the other so it can reduce.