PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF PHOSPHATE CATION-EXCHANGE RESIN

There are investigated sorption and desorption characteristics of phosphate cation-exchange resin among metals: copper, nickel, cobalt, an uranyl-ion depending on pH-environment, the ionic form of cation-exchange resin, concentration of investigated cations. Interaction of cation-exchange resin in Na- and H-forms with solutions of salts sulphate of copper, nickel, cobalt, chloride sodium, calcium and nitrate of uranyl is studied. It is shown, that ions of copper, nickel, cobalt and an uranyl-ion by phosphate cation-exchange resin sorb at the expense of an ionic exchange and partially at the expense of formation of coordination communications with ionogenic group of cation-exchange resin. A study of the sorption of uranyl ions depending on the concentration of uranyl nitrate in the range of 0.01-0.1 N showed that with an increase in the concentration of uranyl in the studied interval, the value of sorption of uranyl increases slightly. The studied phosphate cation exchanger has a sufficiently high sorption and desorption ability to the ions of the tested metals.

ACRYLAMIDE (CO)POLYMERS DISSOLUTION IN WATER-SALINE SOLUTIONS

Dissolution of acrylamide anionic (co)polymers in saline solutions (potassium and sodium chlorides) with concentration of 3.4 mol/l was studied by atomic absorption spectroscopy, optical microscopy, gel-test and capillary viscosimetry. It has been established that with increasing in the content of ionogenic groups and the transition from sodium chloride to potassium chloride solutions the dissolution rate of (co)polymer increases. The concentration of cations of low molecular weight electrolytes is higher in the swollen polymer phase than in the solution in the swelling stage of polymers, the difference in the counter ion content decreases with increasing dissolution time. Comparative analysis of the Huggins constant and the hydrodynamic radii of acrylamide (co)polymers has showed that increase in the interaction in polymer-solvent system is accompanied by the increase in size of macromolecular coils. The Kuhn segment of polymer macromolecules is higher in sodium chloride solutions than in potassium chloride solutions and increases with the decrease in ionogenic group content.