How to Estimate Thermodynamic Data and Verify Relationships Using Simple Electrochemistry

Abstract

Experimental determination of thermodynamic quantities can be very simple, but some suggested procedures can be complicated and cumbersome. They can be almost impossible in the student’s laboratory in chemistry education. Electrochemistry provides easy and simple access to those data for chemical reactions which can be executed in an electrochemical cell. Two examples are presented and discussed, their results are critically examined.