scholarly journals IX.—On the Relationship between Concentration and Electrolytic Conductivity in Concentrated Aqueous Solutions

1906 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gibson

Although great advances have been made during the last thirty years in our knowledge of dilute solutions, there has been no corresponding advance in respect of concentrated solutions. This is primarily due to the fact that hitherto no simple and general relationship has been discovered between the conductivity and the concentration of concentrated solutions of electrolytes. Ostwald's law of dilution holds only for dilute solutions of weak electrolytes, and the formulæ of Rudolphi and Van T'Hoff are applicable only to dilute solutions of good electrolytes. It seems therefore important to inquire whether the difficulty may not be to some extent overcome by an alteration in the mode of representing the facts.

1906 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-237
Author(s):  
J. Gibson

In a paper communicated to the Society in 1897, the author drew attention to increase in electrical conductivity as a characteristic of photo-chemical action, and in a second communication in December of the same year, made the following statement—“It would appear that the chemical behaviour of the acids just mentioned (HNO3, HCl, H2SO4) depends in many of their reactions on whether their concentration is above or below that corresponding to their maximum electrolytic conductivity.”


1908 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Johnston

In this paper the results of observations of the elevation of the boiling point of aqueous solutions of electrolytes are given, and a few results of observations of the depression of the freezing point, together with conductivity data obtained by observations of conductivity at about 99·4° and 0° Centigrade.


1910 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 254-264
Author(s):  
John Gibson ◽  
G. E. Gibson

Kohlrausch and others have recently published investigations which show that the electrolytic conductivity of dilute solutions of inorganic salts may be determined with a maximum error of two or three in ten thousand.Hitherto such accuracy has not been attained with highly conducting concentrated solutions. With such solutions different difficulties are encountered from those met with in dilute solutions. Temperature variations originating outside the cell, the heating effect of the current within the cell, and polarisation are sources of error which are particularly troublesome in the case of highly conducting solutions.


Heats of dilution have been exhaustively studied by Prof. Julius Thomsen for a very large number of aqueous solutions.* His method chiefly consisted in taking some concentrated solution and diluting it considerably. The total amount of heat generated or absorbed in this process was thus found and quoted against the final concentration expressed in molecules of water to one molecule of solute. It is to be noted that during the process of dilution most of the thermal change occurs in the early stages, and that after the first ten molecules of water are added the total heat generated or absorbed increases but slightly. The probable reason for this procedure is, that the experimenter finishes the operation with a dilute solution, so that starting with various initial concentrations, he may need only a few specific heats of certain dilute solutions. It must be remembered that only the final .specific heat of the solution need be known in order to measure the heat generated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Vera A. Petrukhina ◽  
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Pavel I. Fedorov ◽  
Ksenia A. Konnova ◽  
Maria V. Yakimova ◽  
...  

Earlier, we studied the electrical conductivity of inorganic salts in a number of alcohols (ethanol, propanol-2, and butanol-1) at room temperature and found that alcoholic solutions of inorganic salts are weak electrolytes. It is known that an increase in the temperature of salt solutions leads to an increase in electrical conductivity due to an increase in the mobility of their ions in the solvent medium. To study the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity of aqueous solutions of electrolytes, we proposed an approach based on the study of the effect of temperature on the equivalent electrical conductivity of solutions at infinite dilution λ∞. Using this approach, we studied the electrical conductivity of aqueous solutions of a number inorganic salts (nitrates, acetates, and phosphates), carboxylic acids, and amino acids as a function of temperature. It was found that for these solutions the dependence λ∞(Т) is described by the exponential Arrhenius equation λ∞ = Аexp(-E/(RT)). This equation was used to describe the temperature dependence of the ultimate equivalent conductivity for solutions of a number of inorganic salts (calcium and nitrate calcium, cadmium, lithium and potassium iodides, chloride, iodide and ammonium nitrate, silver nitrate and sodium bromide) in ethanol. This article investigated and demonstrated the possibility of describing the experimental data λ∞(Т) for solutions of ethylates, propylates and isopropylates of sodium and potassium in the corresponding alcohols (ethylates in ethanol, propylates in propanol, isopropylates in isopropyl alcohol) using the same equation.


Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 8462-8472
Author(s):  
Konstantinos N. Raftopoulos ◽  
Konstantinos Kyriakos ◽  
Matthias Nuber ◽  
Bart-Jan Niebuur ◽  
Olaf Holderer ◽  
...  

The polymer dynamics in concentrated solutions of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) in water/methanol mixtures is investigated using light and neutron scattering.


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