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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
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Wilder Bancroft's Study of Oxidant-Reductant Cells
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John T. Stock
University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry, U-60, Room 151, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4060
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July 1998
Vol. 75 No. 7
p. 844
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Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867 -1953), a Harvard graduate, entered Ostwald's Leipzig laboratory in 1890. Bancroft made a systematic study of potentiometric cells in which one half contained an oxidant solution, the other half a reductant solution. He stressed the importance of the equilibration of the platinum electrodes, examined the effects of acidity and of concentration on the emf of a cell, and demonstrated that this emf was the algebraic sum of the potentials of the half-cells. After receipt of his Ph.D. in 1892, Bancroft continued his potentiometric studies in Amsterdam. Following a brief return to Harvard, Bancroft moved to Cornell, and remained there until his retirement in 1937. He founded and edited the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and was President of the American Chemical Society in 1910. He was also twice President of the Electrochemical Society.
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Stock, John T. . J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 844.
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Physical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Redox Reactions, Aqueous Solution Chemistry, History/Philosophy
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