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How many coulomb of electricity would be required to reduce the iron in 36.0 g of potassium hexacyano ferrate (III), K3Fe(CN)6, to metallic iron?

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Fe3+ + 3e Fe
that means, 3F of current is require to deposit 1 mole of Fe
number of moles of K3Fe(CN)6 = givenweightmoleculrweight

no of moles = 36329 =0.11 moles
for 1 mole it require 3 F (396500)
for 0.11 mole current require = 3965000.11
so, number of coulombs require = 32134.5


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