Samyak Jain
Last Activity: 5 Years ago
Actually, E
is an intensive property while

G

is an extensive property. This implies E

cannot be just added
whereas

G

can be added for reactions. However, the potentials are additive when half-reations are added to yield an overall reaction but they aren’t additive when half-reactions are added to give third half-reaction.
.

= -nFE

G
In 2014 JEE Main (offline), the two half reactions were added to giveoverall reaction (in which no electrons were present). So E
could be added.But here the two reactions yield third half reaction (in which electron is present) and thus we need to proceed through