An inexpensive and accurate method of measuring the quantity of electricity passing through a circuit is to pass it through a solution of a metal ion and weigh the metal deposited. A silver electrode immersed in an Ag+ solution weighs 1.7854 g before the current passes and weighs 1.9391 g after the current has passed.   How many coulombs have passed?    C

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An inexpensive and accurate method of measuring the quantity of electricity passing through a circuit is to pass it through a solution of a metal ion and weigh the metal deposited. A silver electrode immersed in an Ag+ solution weighs 1.7854 g before the current passes and weighs 1.9391 g after the current has passed.

 


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