how concentration affects cell potential
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how concentration affects cell potential
In the notes, we said that we could use le chatelier's principle in order to see how concentration affects cell potential. When the increase of a reactant was greater than 1.0m, then e cell> standard cell potential and when the increase of a product was greater than 1.0m, then e cell < standard cell potential. Can someone break this concept down for me
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Re: how concentration affects cell potential
A cell reaction with a positive cell potential has a strong tendency to take place and will result in more products at equilibrium. As a result, K will be larger than 1 when E*cell > 0. When a cell has negative cell potential, the reaction is less likely to take place thus generating fewer products at equilibrium. K will be less than 1 when E* cell < 0.
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Re: how concentration affects cell potential
I'm not sure if this will help much, but this website breaks it down a bit. Give it a read?
https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/UCD_Chem_002CH/Text/UNIT_II%3A_ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY/17.3%3A_Concentration_Effects_and_the_Nernst_Equation#The_Effect_of_Concentration_on_Cell_Potential:_The_Nernst_Equation
https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/UCD_Chem_002CH/Text/UNIT_II%3A_ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY/17.3%3A_Concentration_Effects_and_the_Nernst_Equation#The_Effect_of_Concentration_on_Cell_Potential:_The_Nernst_Equation
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