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Knowledge of reversible electrode potentials is important for many aspects of analytical electrochemistry, and also as a source of thermo-dynamic data that are finding increasing applications in analytical chemistry. Unfortunately, there are substantial experimental difficulties associated with determination of reversible electrode potentials for metals that are very reactive and for ill-behaving metals that often yield “irreversible” electrodes. Many years ago, Lewis developed and applied indirect electrochemical methods for determination of the potentials for such active metals as sodium in aqueous systems. Subsequently, Latimer and others have applied thermodynamic data to calculation of aqueous potentials for aluminum, fluorine, etc.
Parts of this work are also reported in the following: J. W. Larson, Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968; J. W. Larson, P. Cerutti, H. K. Garber, and L. G. Hepler, J. Phys. Chem., in press.
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Larson, J.W., Hepler, L.G. (1968). Calorimetric Measurements on Metal Sulfates and Their Hydrates: Electrode Potentials and Thermodynamic Data for Aqueous Ions of Transition Elements. In: Porter, R.S., Johnson, J.F. (eds) Analytical Calorimetry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0001-5_25
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