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The document discusses the thermodynamics of ion gradients and ATP formation. It explains that charged particles spontaneously flow from regions of high electrochemical potential to low electrochemical potential. During oxidative phosphorylation, protons are pumped from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space, storing free energy in both a chemical proton gradient and an electric potential gradient. Typically, 4 protons are needed to synthesize one ATP molecule, and oxidative phosphorylation pro
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- maria
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