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प्रश्न
Give reasons:
Mercury cell delivers a constant potential during its life time.
उत्तर
In the mercury cell, the overall reaction does not involve any ion in solution whose concentration can change during its lifetime, due to this reason its potential (1.35 V approx.) remains constant.
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