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An electrode for the coulometric generation of hydrogen ion
1Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50010, U.S.A.
Abstract:
The anodic generation of hydrogen ion on bright platinum in 1.0M sodium perchlorate is not quantitative owing to the formation of a chemical species With oxidizińg properties, presumably a peroxydiperchlorate, but 100% current efficiency can be obtained in the anodic generation of hydrogen in 0.25M sodium hydrazinium sulphate, Na(N(2)H(5))SO(4). Five hydrogen ions are formed for each four electrons passed. The efficiency of this "hydrazine-platinum anode" has been demonstrated by the high-precision coulometric titration of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane.
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