Calculation of the surface charge and potential and of the structural component of disjoining pressure in an interlayer in KCl solutions between glass samples

The dependence of the Stern potential, ψ₁, of glass samples on the distance between these, H, has been theoretically calculated, while taking into account the Stern isotherm and the electroneutrality equation. Comparison of the theoretical dependences ψ₁(C)_H→∞ with those previously experimentally obtained enables one to calculate the energy of adsorption of OH ions on glass and, further, the dependence ψ₁(H). It has been shown that for pH 4–6 and C_KCl = 10^-2-10^-5 mol/L, the value of ψ₁ practically does not depend on H. The result obtained was used to calculate theoretically the ionic-electrostatic forces and to compute (from the experimental values of the interaction forces) structural forces U_s(H). The dependence thus obtained, U_s(H), is of exponential character.