Partial molal enthalpies,excess partial molal heat capacities,and structural effects ofn-Am4NBr in the water-dioxane system

Integral heats of solution of tetra-n-pentylammonium bromide, n-Am₄NBr, in aqueous binary mixtures of dioxane are reported at 25° and 35°C from 0.0 to 0.3 mole fraction of dioxane. The excess partial molal heat capacity c _p ^° at 30°C is derived from the integral heats of solution at infinite dilution at 25° and 35°C. The partial molal enthalpies of n-Am₄NBr exhibit a rather flat maxima at 0.2 mole fraction dioxane. The c _p ^° values suggest a structure-breaking role for dioxane. The results obtained in this study are compared with those obtained with n-Bu₄NBr in the same system in an earlier study.     

Thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions: An EMF study of the activity coefficients of KCl in the system KCl−KNO3−H2O at 25, 35 and 45°C

Electromotive force measurements were carried out on the system KCl–KNO₃–H₂O at constant total ionic strengths of 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 mol-kg^–1 and at 25, 35 and 45°C using a cell consisting of a potassium ionselective electrode and a Ag/AgCl electrode. The Harned coefficients and the Pitzer binary and ternary interaction parameters for the system have been evaluated at each temperature. The osmotic coefficients, excess free energies of mixing and heats of mixing of the system have been predicted at each of the experimental temperatures and ionic strengths. The solubility data at 25°C are also interpreted.     

Critical micelle concentrations for alkyltrimethylammonium bromides in water from 25 to 160°C

Critical micelle concentrations were determined by conductance measurements for decyl-, dodecyl-, tetradecyl- and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide in water at 25, 60, 95, 130, and 160°C. The results are discussed in terms of the equilibrium model and the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann model for micelle formation. The free energies of transferring a methylene group from water to the oil-like interior of the micelle are found to be –781 at 25°C, –796 at 60°C, –819 at 95°C, –815 at 130°C, and –787 at 160°C cal-mol^–1.     

Anthill Earth as a Gold Occurrence Indicator,and Gold Determination by Solid Sampling Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

With the aim of avoiding cumbersome sample treatment, we present a device for the introduction of solid soil samples into AAS-flames for gold determination, as well as the proposition of earth from anthills as a gold occurrence indicator. A previous ground sample of anthill earth (0.50 mg) was weighed directly into a small recipient of polyethylene which was then connected to a sampling boronsilicate glass chamber. The sample was carried by an airflow (5 L min⁻¹) to a quartz cell positioned between the burner top and the optical beam. The generated atomic vapor produced a transient signal which was totally integrated in three seconds. The performance was compared with conventional flame atomic absorption spectrometry after proper sample digestion. No significant differences were observed between both procedures (mean deviation ±1.90%), and a LOQ of 0.03 μg Au was achieved using the proposed method. The anthill earth was found to be very suitable for indication of gold occurrence in soils and related materials.     

Thermochemistry of nonaqueous solutions of electrolytes: I. Heats of solution of NaI at 25 and 2. 5° and KI at 25° in ethylene glycol

Heats of solution of NaI at 25 and 2. 5° and of KI at 25° in ethylene glycol are reported. A calorimetric thermometer circuit was used with a KMT-14 thermistor. The heats of solution in ethylene glycol are found to be more exothermic than those in methanol, and the latter more so than those in water. The higher values for the organic solvents may be due to differences in the components of the heats of solvation.     

A Microcalorimetric Study of Water Vapor Sorption on Morphine Sulphate

Water vapor sorption on morphine sulphate was studied in a twin double sorption microcalorimeter at 25°C. The vapor sorption isotherm and the differential heats of sorption were determined simultaneously from dry condition to a water activity of 0.99. Two well resolved hydration steps were obtained on the sorption isotherm at water activities of 0.01 and 0.22 corresponding to the formation of dihydrate and pentahydrate of morphine sulphate. They were accompanied by constant values of the differential heats of sorption: –24 kJ mol^–1(H₂O) for the dihydrate formation and –10 kJ mol^–1(H₂O) for the pentahydrate formation.The calorimetrically obtained sorption isotherms were compared with the results of Karl Fisher titrations of morphine sulphate samples equilibrated at different water activities. The appearance of a liquid phase in the morphine sulphate at high water activities is discussed on the basis of the obtained differential heats of sorption and measured heat capacities of morphine sulphate at different water activities.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Enthalpies of alkyl sulfonates in water,heavy water,and water-alcohol mixtures and the interaction of water with methylene groups

The heats of solution of the sodium n-alkyl sulfonates from methyl to octyl have been measured at 25°C in water, D₂O, and three alcohol-rich mixtures with water, all at solute concentrations low enough so that solute-solute interaction is negligible. Methylene-group contributions to the enthalpies of transfer are readily identified. Collation with the results of earlier studies of enthalpies of transfer leads to the conclusion that methylene-group enthalpies of transfer can be identified as follows: 0.87 kcal-mole^–1 for transfers to the gas phase from water and –0.035 kcal-mole^–1 for transfers to D₂O from H₂O, independent of the solute type provided only that methylene-group contributions can be identified in the data. Compared to other solvents, water is about as lipophilic as dimethylsulfoxide or a mixture of 27 moles of water with 73 moles of methanol. However, the range of the interactions between different groups on a given solute molecule seems to be much greater in water than in any of the other solvents studied, making it more difficult to identify group contributions to solvation in water. Another example of the complexity of the solvation of alkyl groups in water is encountered when one compares the solvation enthalpy of hexane in various solvents with some of the above results.     

Thermochemistry of natural hypersaline water systems using the Dead Sea as a case

In order to study the heat effect of mixing of fresh waters (winter rains in the form of floods) with Dead Sea water, the heats of mixing of Dead Sea water with distilled water at 25°C have been measured. On the basis of these experimental data, the heats of dilution of fresh water in Dead Sea water and Dead Sea water in fresh water have been calculated. By considering the isothermal cycle of the dilution of Dead Sea water, the partial heat of evaporation of water from Dead Sea water was found to be ca. 24585 kJ-(kgH₂O)^–1 at 25°C.     

Heats of dilution of polystyrenesulphonates in dioxane-water mixtures

The heats of dilution of polystyrenesulphonic acid and its sodium salt in 25, 50 and 75 wt% mixtures of dioxane and water have been measured at 25°C in the concentration range from about 0.3 to about 0.003 M in monomer units. The heat effects decrease with decreasing dielectric constant of the solvent and become negligible for the acid in about 80% dioxane and for the sodium salt in about 60% dioxane. At these two concentrations of dioxane, phase separation has been observed. The experimental results have been compared with the predictions of the cylindrical cell and infinite line charge models and a satisfactory agreement has been found.     

Complex Formation of Crown Ethers with Cations in Water–Organic Solvent Mixtures. III. Thermodynamics of Interaction Between Na+ Ion with 15-Crown-5 Ether in Water–Acetonitrile Mixtures at 25°C

Enthalpies of solution of 15-crown-5 ether in the acetonitrile–water–sodium iodide system have been measured at 25°C. The equilibrium constants of complex formation of 15C5 with sodium iodide have been determined by molar conductance at various mole ratios 15C5 to sodium iodide in mixtures of water with acetonitrile at 25°C. The thermodynamic functions for complexation of the crown ether with Na⁺ were calculated. From the result, the standard Gibbs energies of complex formation as a function of the normalized Lewis acidity parameters E ^N _T and enthalpy of solvation of 15C5 in the mixtures of water with acetonitrile have been analyzed. The enthalpies of transfer of the 15C5 complex with sodium iodide from pure acetonitrile to the mixtures studied were calculated and discussed.     

Conductance in isodielectric mixtures. II.i-butyronitrile with benzene,carbon tetrachloride,dioxane, and tetrahydrofuran

The conductance of tetrabutylammonium nitrate, perchlorate, and picrate and of tetraethyl-, tetrapropyl-, and tetrabutylammonium tetraphenylborides has been measured at 25°C ini-butyronitrile and in mixtures of this solvent with benzene, carbon tetrachloride, dioxane, and tetrahydrofuran, covering the range of dielectric constants 10–23.81. The association constant for a given salt is the same in isodielectric mixtures ofi-butyronitrile with the nonpolar liquids; association is greater at a given dielectric constant for the mixtures with tetrahydrofuran. Single-ion mobilities are specific for any ion-solvent combination and therefore cannot be described in terms of the radius of an equivalent sphere and the bulk dielectric constant and viscosity of the solvent.     

Thermodynamics of the solution equilibria of 3-hydroxypyridine and pyridoxine in water-dioxane mixtures

The thermodynamics of tautomeric and microscopic ionization equilibrium constants of 3-hydroxypyridine and pyridoxine have been determined in waterdioxane mixtures (0–70% weight fraction in dioxane) ranging from 10°C to 50°C. Generally, for both types of processes, the entropic contributions to the Gibbs energy predominate and this tendency increase concomitantly with the dioxane content in the media. The thermodynamic parameters are consistent with the corresponding values obtained from macroscopic ionization processes. An equation for the equilibrium constant K as a function of temperature and a solvent characteristic parameter is proposed to predict the K values throughout the whole range of the temperature and solvent compositions studied.     

Osmotic coefficients of polystyrenesulphonates in dioxane-water mixtures—II. Divalent counterions and mixtures of mono- and divalent counterions

The osmotic pressures of solutions of magnesium and calcium polystyrenesulphonate in water and in 25 wt % mixture of dioxane in water have been measured for concentrations from 0?002 to 0?06 molal in monomer units. The osmotic coefficient derived from these measurements is almost independent of concentration. Its values for solutions in dioxane-water mixtures are much lower than for aqueous solutions. The osmotic coefficients of solutions containing mixtures of polystyrenesulphonic acid and its calcium salt in 25 wt % dioxane have also been determined. The osmotic coefficient of these solutions has a distinct maximum at a certain value of the equivalent fraction of the acid. The experimental results are compared with the predictions of the cylindrical cell model and infinite line charge model. Satisfactory agreement between theory and experiment is found.     

Complete Resolution and Thermodynamic Parameters of the Ionization Equilibria of Pyridoxal in Water—Dioxane Mixtures

A potentiometric method has been used to determine the thermodynamicequilibrium constants for the macroscopic ionization processes of pyridoxal inwater—1,4-dioxane mixtures (0–70% weight fraction dioxane)at temperatures ranging from 10 to 50°C. These data, combined with the equilibrium constants for the tautomericand hemiacetalization processes, allow complete resolution of the microconstantsystem and calculation of the microscopic ionization equilibrium constants underall our experimental conditions. The standard thermodynamic function changesfor the macroscopic and microscopic ionization processes were obtained in variouswater—1,4-dioxane mixtures at 25°C. The values of any given microscopic pKfor the different solvents and temperatures fit very well to a single equation. Thefree energy, enthalpy, and entropy obtained for the different ionization processesin water—dioxane mixtures correlate with Kamlet and Taft's solvatochromicparameters ^* and , which are a measure of the dipolarity/polarizability andhydrogen-bonding capacity of the solvent, respectively. These correlations explainmore fully the mutual compensation between the contributions of enthalpy andentropy and the origin of the solvent effect on the pK.     

Viscosities and intradiffusion coefficients in the ternary system NaCl−MgCl2−H2O at 25°C

The intradiffusion coefficients of Na⁺, Cl^– ions and water and the tracerdiffusion coefficients of Ca²⁺ ion have been measured in the ternary system NaCl–MgCl₂–H₂O at 25°C. The intradiffusion coefficients of Mg²⁺ in this system have been estimated from the corresponding Ca²⁺ diffusion measurements. Viscosities were measured at the same solution concentrations as were used for the diffusion experiments. Intradiffusion and tracerdiffusion coefficients in a range of temperatures from 5 to 45°C are reported for standard sea-water which is a member of the above ternary set.     

Spectrophotometric study of acid-base equilibria of 4-(2-benzothiazolylazo)resorcinol and 4-(2-benzothiazolylazo)salicylic acid in water-organic solvent media

The visible absorption spectra of 4-(2-benzothiazolylazo)resorcinol (BTAR) and 4-(2-benzothiazolylazo)salicylic acid (BTAS) have been recorded in water-organic solvent mixtures in the pH range 0.5–12.0. The organic solvents used are methanol, ethanol,n-propanol, iso-propanol, acetone, dioxane and dimethyl formamide. The spectral changes have been explained in terms of shifts in equilibria among different molecular and ionic species of BTAR and BTAS existing in solution. The pK _a values corresponding to the different ionization steps have been determined at 25°C and I=0.1M (KNO₃) by graphic analysis of the absorbance-pH curves. The results obtained are discussed in terms of the molecular structure of the reagents and the nature of the organic co-solvent used.     

Electrodeposition,Structure, and Properties of Iron–Tungsten Alloys

The electrodeposition, structure, and properties of Fe–W alloys are studied. Working current densitiesirange from 1 to 5 A dm^–2at 50°C. The W content (45 wt %) barely depends oni. The current efficiency is about 40%. Alloys obtained at ibelow 2 A dm^–2are crystalline oversaturated solid solutions of W in Fe and are magnetic. Higher current densities yield amorphous nonmagnetic alloys of the same composition. Either alloy has a very high resistivity (nearly 300 ohm cm) and, after a treatment at 500–600°C, transforms into a more equilibrium binary system comprising a saturated solid solution and an intermetallic compound.     

Kinetics and solvent effects in the acid hydrolysis of potassium ethyl malonate in dioxane-water and acetone-water mixtures

The acid-catalysed hydrolysis of potassium ethyl malonate in presence of 0.05N-HCl in water and in dioxane-water as well as acetone-water mixtures containing up to about 90% by weight of the organic solvent was studied over the temperature range 30–55°C. The reaction rate decreases continuously with decreasing water content of the solvent mixtures until it reaches a minimum at about 80% dioxane and increases again. The isocomposition activation energy shows only slight changes with solvent composition. The kinetics of the reaction was investigated from the viewpoints of solvent composition, water concentration and dielectric constant. The radii and thermodynamic parameters of the activated complex were calculated and discussed. The conclusions drawn show that the reaction is better treated as an ion-dipole rather than an ion-ion interaction.With 1 Figure     

Energy of rehydration of natural clinoptilolite and its lithium form as a function of the dehydration temperature

Natural clinoptilolite (CL) is practically reversibly rehydrated below (350±50)°C, and is only 10% sintered at 500°C. LiCL is reversibly dehydrated up to (250±20)°C, and is sintered much more rapidly than CL at higher temperatures (by 50% at 400°C, for example). The heats of rehydration pass through maxima as a function of the calcination temperature: for CL (250±10) J/g at 300–400°C, and for LiCL (300±15) J/g at 250°C. The corresponding half-widths of the maxima are >500 and (330±20)°C. The maximum values of the average molecular integral heats of adsorption of water vapors are (73±3) kJ/mole on CL and (76±3) kJ/mole in LiCL.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2407–2409, November, 1989.We would like to thank T. M. Guliev for assisting in the measurements.     

Microviscosity of dilute latex + gelatin dispersions determined by dynamic light-scattering

The microviscosity of dilute latex + gelatin dispersions has been studied by dynamic light-scattering at gelatin concentrations up to 1.0 wt % and temperatures in the range 8–45 °C. The change in mean particle diffusion coefficient following a rapid quench correlates strongly with the change in bulk shear viscosity of the gelatin solution. Slow thermal studies of latex + gelatin exhibit hysteresis effects which are mirrored by bulk viscometry data for gelatin solutions at the same concentration.