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question 41

Multiple Choice

In one episode of the 1960s television sitcom, Gilligan's Island, the famous "professor" constructed voltaic cells to use as substitutes for their radio's dead batteries. A single D-cell has an emf of 1.5 V. Which scraps of metal from their damaged boat, the Minnow, could best be used to create a 1.5 V voltaic cell? Assume that coconuts make great beakers and that seawater is a terrific electrolyte. Metal/Metal ion
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$\begin{array} { l l } \text { iron/iron(II) (the anchor) } & - 0.44 \\ \text { lead/lead(II) (fishing weights) } & - 0.126 \\ \text { silver/silver(I) (Mrs. Howell's brooch) } & + 0.799 \\ \text { aluminum/aluminum(III) (the boat's flagpole) } & - 1.677 \end{array}$

• A) silver anode and lead cathode
• B) aluminum anode and lead cathode
• C) iron anode and aluminum cathode
• D) aluminum anode and silver cathode
• E) lead cathode and silver anode

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