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88 Chapter 3: Transduction Platforms<br />

AgCl<br />

AgCl+e – → Ag + Cl – E 0 = +0.22V (3.58)<br />

Flow of Electrons<br />

Fig. 3.14 The half cell within the doted space is called an silver-silver chloride<br />

reference electrode.<br />

Consider the cell shown in Fig. 3.14. In this example, we intend to<br />

measure the relative concentrations of Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ . Pt is used as it does<br />

not interact with the aqueous Fe ions. The two half reactions can be written<br />

as follow: 9<br />

Fe 3+ + e – Fe 2+ E 0 = 0.77 V (3.59)<br />

AgCl(s) + e – Ag (s) + Cl –<br />

Voltmeter (V)<br />

Salt bridge<br />

Ag Pt<br />

Saturated<br />

KCl solution<br />

Ag + Cl – ↔ AgCl + e –<br />

Porous glass<br />

From Eq. (3.57) the electrode potentials will be:<br />

Fe 2+<br />

Fe 3+<br />

Fe 3+ (aq) + e – ↔ Fe 2+ (aq)<br />

E 0 = 0.22 V (3.60)<br />

E+ = 0.77 V – 0.0591 V log ( [Fe 2+ ]/[Fe 3+ ] ), (3.61)

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