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How many faraday of electricity is required to liberate 1 mol of copper from a copper sulphate solution?

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`Cu^(2+)` is reduced to copper by losing 2 electrons.
1 mol Cu = 63.5 g of Cu = 2 gram - equiv. of Cu Hence electricity required = 2F
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