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By Lect. Basheer Ahmed

The rate of hydrogen reduction in a metal is determined by the slowest step in the process. The rate-controlling step depends on factors like the metal, current density, and environment. For hydrogen reduction to occur, atoms or ions must acquire enough activation energy to overcome the energy barrier of the slowest step as described by the relationship between activation polarization and reaction rate in the Tafel equation.

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By Lect. Basheer Ahmed

The rate of hydrogen reduction in a metal is determined by the slowest step in the process. The rate-controlling step depends on factors like the metal, current density, and environment. For hydrogen reduction to occur, atoms or ions must acquire enough activation energy to overcome the energy barrier of the slowest step as described by the relationship between activation polarization and reaction rate in the Tafel equation.

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By

Lect. Basheer Ahmed


 The rate of hydrogen reduction is determined by the
slowest of the steps. The rate, controlling step, varies
with the metals, current density and environment.
There is a critical activation energy needed to surmount
the energy barrier associated with the slowest step. The
rate of ransformation is controlled by the magnitude of
the energy barrier that an atom or ion must surmount to
transform from metal to ion or from ion to metal. The
energy that must be acquired is the activation energy
AG*. The relationship between activation polarization
and the rate of reaction is given by the Tafel equation:

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