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Fuel cells
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Grove's gas battery and the thermodynamic voltage and efficiency limits
of the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In 1839-1842 William Grove ran electrolysis backwards: hydrogen and oxygen over platinum electrodes in dilute acid recombined to produce a current. This example computes the reversible voltage of that cell two ways -- from the standard potentials of the O2/H2O and H+/H2 couples and from \Delta G^\circ via reversible_cell_voltage -- its temperature dependence (~chemistrykit.electrochem.systems.fuel_cell.reversible_cell_voltage_at_temperature), and its thermodynamic efficiency limit \Delta G/\Delta H (~chemistrykit.electrochem.systems.fuel_cell.fuel_cell_efficiency_limit) compared with the Carnot limit of a heat engine.">

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