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Ch.19 - Electrochemistry

Chapter 19, Problem 103

At one time on Earth, iron was present mostly as iron(II). Later, once plants had produced a significant quantity of oxygen in the atmosphere, the iron became oxidized to iron(III). Show that Fe2+(aq) can be spontaneously oxidized to Fe3+(aq) by O2(g) at 25°C assuming the following reasonable environmental conditions:

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