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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 10
Issue 5 (2005) pp 348-356
Microscale Environmental Chemistry: Part 4. Experimental Transitions in a Potential versus pH (Pourbaix Diagram)
Jorge G. Ibanez,* Karla Garcia, and Patricia Balderas-Hernandez
Centro Mexicano de Quimica en Microescala. Depto.
de Ing. y Ciencias Quimicas. Universidad Iberoamericana. Prolongacion
Reforma 880, 01210
Mexico, D.F. Mexico, jorge.ibanez@uia.mx
Received September 27, 2004. Accepted
February 14, 2005.
Published online: 31 August 2005
Abstract. Using simple equipment in a three-hour undergraduate laboratory session, the copper/water system is used for the observation of 10 chemical/electrochemical transitions using a potential versus pH diagram, also called a Pourbaix diagram.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; general chemistry; analytic chemistry; electrochemistry; inorganic chemistry
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: jorge.ibanez@uia.mx)
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Issue date: October 1, 2005
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