The standard hydrogen electrode is used as the reference electrode. Some of the difficulties in using hydrogen gas as an electrode are:

The standard hydrogen electrode is used as the reference electrode. Some of the difficulties in using hydrogen gas as an electrode are:
- Hydrogen is a gas at 25^oC
- Hydrogen does not conduct electricity
-The half-cell reaction, is slow and takes long to reach equilibrium.
Explain how these difficulties are solved in the standard hydrogen electrode

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Platinum electrode is used, H₂ is bubbled over the pt electrode immersed in 1M H+ that is, 1M HCl.
The electrode is coated with finely –divided platinum catalyst

Electrochemical cell

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maurice.mutuku answered the question on October 31, 2019 at 08:27

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