Hi everyone,
I'm tutoring electrochemical cells to a student and I got a bit stumped on this question.
The question asked for the conventional representation for a glucose-oxygen fuel cell and the answer was (simplified for typing purposes):
C | Glucose , H+ | CO2 || O2 | H+ , H2O | Pt
Now for conventional representation you always put the species that has the highest oxidation state next to the salt bridge for each half cell. Surely that would be H+ (oxidation state of +1) as CO2 and O2 would have an oxidation state of 0.
Can someone explain why this isn't the case?