Preferred Label : characteristic potential;
IUPAC definition : An applied potential that is characteristic of a charge-transfer process and the experimental
conditions (such as the composition of the solvent and supporting electrolyte and
the temperature) under which it is investigated, and whose nature depends on the technique
that is employed. Some typical characteristic potentials are the half-wave potential
in polarography, the quarter-transition-time potential in chronopotentiometry, the
peak potential and the half-peak potential in linear-sweep voltammetry, and the summit
potential in ac polarography.;
Origin ID : C00981;
See also
An applied potential that is characteristic of a charge-transfer process and the experimental
conditions (such as the composition of the solvent and supporting electrolyte and
the temperature) under which it is investigated, and whose nature depends on the technique
that is employed. Some typical characteristic potentials are the half-wave potential
in polarography, the quarter-transition-time potential in chronopotentiometry, the
peak potential and the half-peak potential in linear-sweep voltammetry, and the summit
potential in ac polarography.
