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Kinetics and mechanism of gold dissolution in thiourea solutions: Effect of sulfide ions
Authors:R. Yu. Bek  L. I. Shuraeva
Affiliation:(1) Institute of Solid-State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kutateladze 18, Novosibirsk, 630128, Russia
Abstract:Chronoamperograms for gold in solutions containing 0.1 M thiourea, 0.5 M H2SO4, and catalytically active sulfide ions at the concentration c 1 from 1 × 10?5 to 4 × 10?5 M are obtained at different potentials with the aid of an automated setup intended for renewing the electrode surface directly in the solution by cutting off a thin surface layer of the metal. It is shown that the results of measurements of the current practically coincide at a constant value of the product c 1 t, where t is the time period elapsed after the renewal of the electrode surface. Such a coincidence testifies to a diffusion nature of processes that hamper accumulation of sulfide ions at the gold surface. This fact permitted the use of a procedure developed previously for the calculation of polarization curves at constant values of surface coverage θ by catalytically active ions. At θ = const, the voltammetric curves for gold in sulfide-containing thiourea solutions are shown to correspond to the Tafel equation. With the surface coverage increasing, the effective values of the exchange current i 0, transfer coefficient α, and anodic reaction order with respect to thiourea P a increase from the values i }~ 10?5 A cm?2, α }~ 0.12, and P a = 0.2, which are characteristic of pure solutions, to 2 × 10?4 A cm?2, α }~ 0.5, and P a = 1.1 (at θ }~ 0.5). An interpretation to the established regularities is given.
Keywords:kinetics  diffusion  current  catalytically active ions  sulfide  thiourea  gold
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