Integral heats of solution and enthalpies of ionization of 100% nitric acid at 298 K 3. Aqueous solutions of sulfuric acid containing 70–90% H2SO4 and ionization of HNO3 as a base

The integral heats of solution of 100% HNO₃ at =0.1mole/liter in aqueous solutions of H₂SO₄ of <90% by wt. were measured. A scheme was proposed and proved for ionization of HNO₃ as a base in 82–90% aqueous solutions of H₂SO₄, according to which un-ionized HNO₃ exists in the form of an aqueous solvate H₂O-HNO₃ and the ionized form as the ion pair NO₂ ⁺·HSO₄ ^–. The value of the enthalpy of ionization of nitric acid H(NO₂ ⁺ HSO₄ ^–)=H(NO₂ ⁺·HSO₄ ^–) drops from 2.05 at 89.99% H₂SO₄ to 0.18 kcal/mole in 84.07% H₂SO₄.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 306–310, February, 1990.