the sea isnt acidic is it??MuffinMan said:the acidity of the electrolyte (aka seawater)
more acidic more corrosion
Dumsum said:The 7 mark question was straight out of a past English paper, I swear...
acidic due to the presence of sulfate producing bacteria...stephanie_168 said:the sea isnt acidic is it??
i thought the acidic nature of deep sea would be from the anaerobic bacteria reducing sulfate and producing H+ in the reduction.
SO4 + 5h20 + 8e ==> HS- + 9OH-
im glad confusion comes in after the exam..
Yeah I ended up spitting out 3 pages, lol. I did the elective after the multiple choice, so it was still early on which was goodstephanie_168 said:as sad as this may sound..i had fun with that question..well the most fun u can have when doing chem...cos you just re'tell them alllll you know about corrosion prevention/protection..and thats a very big part of my shipwrecks understadning..
me too!stephanie_168 said:as sad as this may sound..i had fun with that question..well the most fun u can have when doing chem...cos you just re'tell them alllll you know about corrosion prevention/protection..and thats a very big part of my shipwrecks understadning..
hahhahahah ditto to thatTulipa said:me too!
i loved it, it was like YES 7 marks right there cause i had just reviewed in depth that last night.
i actually loved shipwrecks overall.
and i put anaerobic bacteria. hopefully thats right
You could have included BNW BR if given the chance. Just state stuff like "advances in chemistry are detrimental to society, because even though corrosion resistant paints can be made, these ultimately destroy our love of the wild and natural processes such as rusting, as is elucidated through the metropolis of LA in 2019, which is clearly a victim of a nuclear holocaust"Captain Gh3y said:That 7 mark question was SO english-ish. I don't see why they even bothered with the statement at all, why not just ask us directly about methods of preventing corrosion? There's enough to talk about for it to be a 7 mark question without the need for "discuss this statement, with reference to your prescribed texts and two other texts of your own choosing" being added.
Seriously, it doesn't make the question any more effective in testing our understanding of chemistry, or address anything more in the syllabus. It just confuses people with words for no reason. Why bother?
Of my 500 posts, at least 400 are bagging english or english-in-science...
damn, the option makes the core topics look HARDrama_v said:You could have included BNW BR if given the chance. Just state stuff like "advances in chemistry are detrimental to society, because even though corrosion resistant paints can be made, these ultimately destroy our love of the wild and natural processes such as rusting, as is elucidated through the metropolis of LA in 2019, which is clearly a victim of a nuclear holocaust"
yeah i said the nail also rusted because it wasnt connected to the magnesium and therefore wasnt cathodically protected...also when iron ions are displaced by the magnesium, the magnesium ribbon would dissapear into solution or untill all the iron ions had been removed .AreYouAlright? said:What did you guys put that happened. I put that it was like a metal displacement reaction as the Magnesium is more active than the iron(II) solution Iron would precipitate out of solution onto the bottom of the beaker and that nothing would happen with the Iron nail because magnesium solution is more active than it.
OR did you say that it worked like a galvanic cell? With Iron being reduced at the nail... i'm going to be so pissed off if i got that wrong.