| Abstract: | Excess amounts of two isomorphous salts, which differ with respect to only one ion (the exchanging ions), added to water and equilibrated produce an aqueous solution of the two salts and a solid solution of one salt in the other. The ratio of the two salts in the liquid phase is, in general, different from that in the coexisting solid. Data for twenty-nine such systems, including pairs of double salts (alums and picromerites), and pairs of simple salts, at or near 25°C, have been reviewed. By making the plausible assumption that the activity coefficients of the exchanging ions in the liquid phase are equal, it has been possible to derive the activity coefficients of the salts in the solid phase in addition to the thermodynamic equilibrium constants for the distributions. The interpretation of the data is compared with that of an earlier paper which drew different conclusions and was based on what is shown to be an erroneous premise. Solid solutions of alums are found, for the most part, to be ideal or nearly so. Of nine picromerite solid solutions containing sulfate as the only anion, seven pairs deviate positively from ideality, one deviates negatively, and one shows both positive and negative deviations. Three other picromerite pairs involving exchange of sulfate, selenate, and chromate ions, show only negative deviations. For the pairs [(NH4)2,K2]SO4, (NH4,K)Cl, Ag(Cl,Br), K(Br,Cl), Rb(Br,Cl), (Rb,K)Br, and (Rb,K)Cl the deviations are positive; those for Pb(Cl,Br)2 are negative, and those for Ba(ClO3)2·H2O are both positive and negative. Independent supporting evidence for some of the conclusions is presented. |
