AQA 3.1.11.1 · Year 13
Conventional electrochemical cell notation
Build conventional cell representations from unfamiliar half-cells. I’d place the two half-cells first, then check each phase boundary, comma and inert electrode one piece at a time.
Fresh cell
Build it from left to right
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Your cell representation
Choose pieces below
AQA: requires conventional cell representation. OCR A students can use this route as extension practice.
Four notation checks before you finish
| marks a phase boundary.|| represents the salt bridge between half-cells.Use a comma between species in the same aqueous phase. Use | at a phase boundary.Use Pt when the half-cell has no conducting redox solid.