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Chemistry: Post your doubts here!

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http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...d AS Level/Chemistry (9701)/9701_s03_qp_4.pdf
Please pleaseee help me! I do not understand electrode potential well and exam is in a week :cry:
qn no. 1 (c)i - why is the polarity that way? Isn't the anode supposed to be the object to be plated since reduction takes place at the anode and therefore, it will gain the electrons from copper?
please help me understand it
At cathode always reduction takes place
At the anode always oxidation takes place
So the object to be plated is at the cathode & it will gain the electrons from copper
You can remember it this way if it helps:
CCR- Cathode cation reduction & RIG- reduction is gain
AAO- Anode anion oxidation & OIL- oxidation is loss
 
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Basically because it has a week metallic bond. The mercury atoms doesn´t donate as much of their valence electrons to the cloud of electrons, so the electrostatic forces between the mercury cation and the delocalised sea of electrons isn´t as a strong metallic bond as say in magnesium, where there are more delocalised electrons and therefore more electrostatic forces of attraction.
oh thnx
 
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