Dielectric Properties of Solutions Isomorphous with Water

The dielectric properties of aqueous solutions of ammonia, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen peroxide, and ammonium halides are determined by the number of hydrogen bonds formed by the solute species with the molecules forming the water framework. For such solutions, the product of the concentration coefficient of the dielectric permittivity by the ratio of the number of hydrogen bonds per solute molecule and per water molecule is constant. In aqueous solutions with a water-like structure, the mechanism of the dielectric polarization is the same as in pure water (proton-activation mechanism) and is determined by proton fluctuations on the line of hydrogen bonds.__________Translated from Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2005, pp. 39–45.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Potapov, Parkhomenko.