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In the Classroom
Procedure for Decomposing a Redox Reaction into Half-Reactions
Ilie Fishtik
Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280

Ladislav H. Berka
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280

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April 2005
Vol. 82 No. 4
p. 553

Abstract
The principle of stoichiometric uniqueness provides a simple algorithm to check whether a simple redox reaction may be uniquely decomposed into half-reactions in a single way. For complex redox reactions the approach permits a complete enumeration of a finite and unique number of ways a redox reaction may be decomposed into half-reactions. Several examples are given.
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*  Citation
Fishtik, Ilie; Berka, Ladislav H. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 553.
*  Keywords
Electrochemistry; Equilibrium; General Chemistry; Redox Reactions; Stoichiometry; Thermodynamics
*  History
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March 4, 2005
March 14, 2005
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