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Here's a guess. When charges are exchanged, they are exchanged at a certain "rate" for the given exchange (whatever it is). In charge exchange in some reactions, as the charges are exchanged, the rate of change goes down because there are less charges than there were to cause exchanges to occur. There is less "exhange pressure" or ionic pressure or, if you like, a lower or reduced ionic gradient to force the exchange. The rate of exchange is declining, and to determine how many exchanges have taken place, we need to integrate to solve the problem. Presto! There is an exchange integral associated with a given charge exchange in a reaction. This will allow us to find out how many charges have been exchanged over a given period. The total number of charges must be written using some kind of units. We could use indvidual charges, but they are so tiny and there are so many of them in just about any "macro reaction" that we'd be using a huge number. We could, instead, use the standard SI unit of charge measurement, the coulomb. And that's about 6.2 x 1018 charges.

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