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When you are given a table of half cells with values for electrode potentials, how do you find the strongest oxidising and reducing agent?

Possibly the easiest way to do this is by thinking about what the value of Electrode Potential means. The more positive the Electrode Potential, the greater the tendency of the species in the equation to be ...
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Answered by James S. • Chemistry tutor
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Why are values for gravitational potential always negative?

This is all down to how gravitational potential is defined. The gravitational potential at a point is defined as the work done per unit mass to move a mass from infinity to the point in the gravitational fie...
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What is the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction?

There are two main muscle filaments in muscle fibres: Actin and myosin filaments . Actin filaments are thin and have binding sites for the globular heads of myosin filaments. Myosin filaments are thick and f...
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Take quadratic equation x^2-6x+14=0 and its solutions a and b. What is a/b+b/a?

In this kind of exersise it is easy to use Viète's formula for quadratic equations: Let: a+b = S a b=P then x 2 -Sx + P=0 In our case, S=6 and P=14 by multiplying the fractions we get: (a a)/(a b)+(b b)/(a b...
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Why can't you divide something by 0?

Let's go back to the definition of division: If we have a number o apples a and b persons to share them with, we can say that each person gets a/b apples. Example: 4 apples and 2 persons : 4/2= 2 apples for ...
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