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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

How many coulomb of charges are required to discharge 1.5mol of Mg²+ ions at the cathode during electrolysis of fused MgCl2.

Profile image of Karthik Bharadwaj
9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
From Faradays law of electrlysis we know that,
Charge = moles x valence factor x F
             = 1.5 * 2 *  96485
             = 289455 Coulomb.