Does zinc react in distilled water?

Answer 1

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Zinc is used to prevent iron from corroding by covering the same iron with thin layers of zinc. Theoretically, this reaction should occur because zinc's redox potential is -0,76 V for distilled water and -0,42 V for neutral water. However, in practice, this reaction doesn't happen because it requires a high activation energy to develop a gas on its surface.

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Answer 2

Cameron Andrews

Distilled water does not react with zinc.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

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