Calcium/ions/salts

A salt originally called sodium hexametaphosphate, with n believed to be 6, is now thought to contain many much larger anion aggregates. It has the important property that it sequesters , i.e. removes, calcium ions from solution. Hence it is much used as a water-softener. 

Blood Calcium Ion Level. In normal adults, the blood Ca " level is estabhshed by an equiUbrium between blood Ca " and the more soluble intercrystalline calcium salts of the bone. Additionally, a subtle and intricate feedback mechanism responsive to the Ca " concentration of the blood that involves the less soluble crystalline hydroxyapatite comes into play. The thyroid and parathyroid glands, the fiver, kidney, and intestine also participate in Ca " control. The salient features of this mechanism are summarized in Figure 2 (29—31). 

Acrylate and acrylamide polymers have several uses in drilling fluids, one of which is for filtration control. Sodium polyacrylates [9003-04-7] having molecular weights near 250,000 are exceUent temperature-stable filtration control agents for both fresh- and salt water muds, provided the concentration of water-soluble calcium is <400 mg/L (83). The calcium ions are precipitated using a carbonate such as soda ash, before adding the polyacrylate at concentrations up to ca 6 kg/m (3 Ib/bbl). 

Calcium ion enters the system not ordy in the form of water hardness but also in the form of calcium salts contained in the sod. Other heavy-metal ions such as aluminum and ferric iron may also be present in the sod, and must be removed by an appropriate budder to achieve good sod removal. Effective budders for cotton washing are those for which the calcium dissociation constant, expressed as or —logif -, is >4 and preferably >7 (33). 

Nondispersed Inhibited Systems. In these systems, the nondispersed character of the fluids is reinforced by some inhibition system, or combination of systems, such as (1) calcium ions, lime or gypsum (2) salt-sodium chloride or potassium chloride (3) polymers such as Polysaccharides, polyanionic cellulose, hydrolyzed polyacrylamide. 

The carbon dioxide content is about 0 0005 to O Ol and the pH is between 7 6 and 8 1. The high chloride content would tend to increase the rate of corrosion, and this usually takes the form of pitting under these conditions. The corrosive influence of the chloride ions is, however, inhibited by the presence of magnesium and calcium ions by virtue of the formation of a protective layer of magnesium and calcium salts (calcareous scale). 

Cathodic protection is a useful supplement to other forms of water treatment, as a general corrosion inhibiting device in HW boilers, or where specific design configurations can lead to inadequately protected localized metal in steam boilers. Where BW makeup demands are minimal and boiler output is fairly constant, cathodic protection devices can also provide some measure of protection against hardness scales. Calcium carbonate salt is formed as a floc-culant or soft sludge rather than a hard scale, due to the peptizing effects of a zinc hydroxide complex formed from zinc ions in alkaline BW. 

An electrolytic method for removing CaO from CaCl2 was suggested by Barletta, et.al.17 The salt is electrolyzed in a cell with a graphite consumable anode. Oxygen is removed at the anode where it reacts with carbon to form CO and C02. Calcium ions are reduced to metal at the cathode. Thus, the electrolytic reduction reaction should be... 

Comparison of results for the first and last entries in Table 7 (AOS 2024 and IOS 2024) was for samples for which the hydrophobe linearity, hydrophobe carbon number, and relative disulfonate content were held nearly constant. The major differences in these surfactants were possible differences in the relative locations of the double bond and the sulfonate group in the alkenesulfonate and in the relative locations of the hydroxy group and the sulfonate group in the hydroxyalkanesulfonate. Analyses to determine these are quite difficult. At calcium ion concentrations below 100-250 ppm, AOS 2024 appeared to be more salt-tolerant than linear IOS 2024. At higher calcium concentrations, the calcium ion tolerance of the two surfactants was similar. 

Fujiwara et al. studied the precipitation phase boundary diagrams of the sodium salts of a-sulfonated myristic and palmitic acid methyl esters in the presence of calcium ions [61]. The time dependency of the precipitation showed that the calcium salts have an extremely slow crystallization rate at room temperatures. This is the reason for the good hardness tolerance of the a-sulfonated fatty acid methyl esters. 

In contrast, observation of the c.d. with the addition of Ca(OH)2, as a function of d.p., demonstrated that terminal and central units react differently towards Ca ". This is illustrated in Fig. 27 for the dimer and the polymer. Again, the intensity of the c.d. band decreases as the polymer binds calcium and begins to gel. Results for both salt forms are attributed to a helix having a two-fold screw-symmetry, in analogy with calcium pectates. The gelling would then involve a multi-chain association, with crosslinking by the calcium ions to form an egg box structure. ... 

Dosages of EDTA are delivered as the calcium disodium salt, Na2[Ca(EDTA)]. The calcium complex prevents EDTA from extracting iron from the blood. Unlike iron, heavy metal ions such as preferentially... 

Phosphates are effective only in small concentrations. The mud temperature must be less than 55° C. The salt contamination must be less than 500 ppm sodium chloride. The concentration of calcium ions should be kept... 

Soaps are composed of sodium salts of various fatty acids. These acids include those with the general structure CH3-(CH2) -COOH where n = 6 (caprylic acid), 8 (capric acid), 10 (lauric acid), 12 (myristic acid), 14 (palmitic acid), and 16 (stearic acid). Oleic acid (CH3-(CH2)7-CH=CH-(CH2)7-COOH) and linoleic acid (CH3-(CH2)4-CH=CH- H2-CH=CH-(CH2)7-COOH) are also common soap ingredients. These sodium salts readily dissolve in water, but other metal ions such as Ca2+ and Mg2+ form precipitates with the fatty acid anions. For example, the dissolution of the sodium salt of lauric acid and the subsequent formation of a precipitate of the lauric acid anion with calcium ion is given by... 

If S moles of CaCC>3 dissolve in a liter of water, then S moles each of calcium ion and carbonate ion form. With these ion concentrations equal to S, the solubility of CaCC>3 is calculated as 9.3 x 10 5 M. The higher solubility of magnesium carbonate in water, 6.3 x 10 3 M, results from the larger solubility product constant. Nevertheless, both of these carbonate salts are rather insoluble, and the excess carbonate anions provided by the sodium carbonate effectively precipitate the calcium and magnesium ions from solution. 

The electrolyte effect for the adsorption of anionic surfactants which leads to an enhancement of soil removal is valid only for low water hardness, i.e. low concentrations of calcium ions. High concentrations of calcium ions can lead to a precipitation of calcium surfactant salts and reduce the concentration of active molecules. Therefore, for many anionic surfactants the washing performance decreases with lower temperatures in the presence of calcium ions. This effect can be compensated by the addition of complexing agents or ion exchangers. 

The saponified fatty acids which are used are most often palmitic, stearic or oleic acid but the way in which they confer a hydrophobic nature to the surface of the ink particle is not well understood. If enough calcium ions are present (and these sometimes need to be added to the system) insoluble calcium salts of the fatty acids are probably produced and these may coat the surface of the print particle making it hydrophobic. The ink particle then adheres to an air bubble and can be floated out of the stock. The saponified fatty acids are often called collectors —a term which comes from mineral flotation. 

A different application of visible microscopy was pioneered by Gomori. In 1941 he showed that alkaline phosphatase could be specifically located by its hydrolysis of soluble phosphate esters (initially glycerophosphate). If calcium ions were present in the medium in which the sections were incubated, insoluble calcium phosphate precipitated as a result of the action of the hydrolase. The site of the precipitate could be visualized if cobalt or lead salts were subsequently added to replace calcium and the sections exposed to hydrogen sulfide. In principle many hydrolases and other enzymes could be studied using the appropriate substrates and precipitants. It was important to ensure that the products of the enzyme reactions did not diffuse from the sites where the enzymes were located. It was also essential that the reagents could reach the enzyme site. 

The modern history of ion exchange began in about 1850 when two English chemists, Thompson(4) and Way(5), studied the exchange between ammonium ions in fertilisers and calcium ions in soil. The materials responsible for the exchange were shown later to be naturally occurring alumino-silicates 6. History records very much earlier observations of the phenomenon and, for example, Aristotle(7), in 330 BC, noted that sea-water loses some of its salt when allowed to percolate through some sands. Those who claim priority for Moses(8) should note however that the process described may have been adsorption ... 

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