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One can measure the dielectric constant e of gases, liquids and solids by placing the sample in a capacitance cell. From measuring e as a function of temperature, one routinely gets the scalar first-order electric dipole susceptibility... 

Onsager 0 equations (Section 5.10), one can extract the dipole moments of polar molecules and the polarizability of any solute molecule. One needs a capacitance cell whose electrodes are as close to each other as practical (for higher capacitances) and reasonable solubilities. If the shape of the solute is very different from the sphere used in the Debye model, then the ellipsoidal cavity has been treated theoretically [13] and applied to hypsochromism [14]. 

Figure 5. Simplified drawings of sample cells, (a) Open coaxial line cell (b) lumped capacitance cell (c) open-ended coaxial cell. (Reproduced with permission from Ref. 113. Copyright 2000, Marcel Dekker, Inc.)...

An elegant way to avoid this non-ideality correction, especially when operating at high pressures (up to 16.5 MPa), where it can become predominant, was proposed by Bose et al. (1987). In their method, for each equilibrium point the density of the adsorptive is determined experimentally from its dielectric constant, which is measured in a gas capacitance cell at the same temperature and pressure as the adsorption system studied. The rest of their adsorption procedure is comparable to the... 

For that reason the dielectric constant is also known as the relative permittivity (with symbol s,). The dielectric constant is determined with a capacitance cell, incorporating a capacitor of fixed dimensions in a suitable contaimnent vessel. If C is the capacitance of... 

A capacitance cell suitable for work with liquids or solutions is shown in Fig. 1 it is made with a small variable-air capacitor of the type formerly in common use in radios and electronic circuits. It should have a maximum capacitance of 50 to 200 pF. This device is more convenient than a fixed-plate capacitor, since with the latter device it is necessary to measure separately the stray capacitance due to electrical leads, etc. In the cell shown, the variable capacitor is used in two positions fully closed (maximum capacitance) and fully open (minimum capacitance) these positions are defined by mechanical stops for the pointer on the knob that rotates the capacitor shaft.f The difference ACbetween the closed (b) and open (a) positions is independent of the stray capacitance. Thus the dielectric constant of the liquid or solution is given by... 

C, 300 pF Cj, 0 to 100 pF. The circuit should be housed in a metal box for shielding, and connections with the capacitance cell and the frequency counter should be made with shielded coaxial cable with BNC or similar connectors. 

Capacitance cell as shown in Fig. 1 oscillator as described in the text and Fig. 2 frequency counter (range at least 0.5 to 5 MHz) shielded coaxial cables with connectors five 50- or 100-mL volumetric flasks a 5-mL Mohr pipette acetone wash bottle rubber pipette bulb. 

Suggested design for gas capacitance cell with a vacuum capacitance of about 250 pF. The recommended material is stainless steel. 

Measurements of e,.—Stability under pressure is the prime requirement for capacitance cells used to determine dielectric virial coefiScients. Cells of both parallel-plate and cylinder-within-a-cjirnder design, stable to a few parts in 10 and usable to over 200 atm, have been described by a number of authors. " Cells for use in the microwave region and cells for measuring refractivity > have also been described. Early measuremoits at radio frequencies relied on the heterodyne beat method, " but more recent work " has utilized the three-terminal transform ratio-aim technique developed by Cole and Gross. This second method eliminates difficulties due to stray capacitances and provides accuracies of better than 1 part in 10 . For an exceUent review of techniques at both ratfio and microwave frequencies see ch. 2 of ref. 53. For refractivity methods see refs. 45,46, and 54. 

Fig.l. Electrical eqivalent circuit for the oscillometric capacitive cell. 

Figure 5 Simplified drawings of sample cells (a) open coaxial line cell (b) lumped capacitance cell (c) end capacitance cell.

Figure 3. Simplified schematic drawings of dielectric sample cells for reflection measurements, (a) Lumped capacitance cell, (b) End capacitance cell, (c) Open coaxial line cell, (d) Coaxial line cell with 50 ohm termination. Bottom sections in all cases are 50 ohm 7 mm precision coaxial lines.

This pattern is shown in the example given in Figure 7, of results for of methanol at 25 C with Debye relaxation time T[) = 52 ps using an end capacitance cell with effective length d = 0.694 mm. In the complex plane plot, values obtained by truncation of P(t) at tfj = 516 ps are plotted as open circles and corrected values obtained by Equation 16 as filled circles. The uncorrected static permittivity s is too small by 6 per cent, and with increasing frequency the difference oscillates around the correct values lying on a Debye semicircle (solid curve). 

Figure 7. Complex dielectric permittivity plots for methanol at 25 C measured in end capacitance cell with d = 0.69 mm. Open circles are from transforms truncated at t = 516 ps. Filled circles and solid semicircle result after truncation corrections described in the text.

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In conclusion, SW-CAM allows us to accurately test the properties of capacitive porous carbon electrodes and calculate the electrode capacity and the various contributions to the observed resistance. In this case, the linear (external) resistance determines the total resistance and analysis suggests that we can assign this resistance to the external electrical circuit, while we can also tentatively conclude that the distributed (volumetric) resistance within the electrode may be close to the ideal value based on an ion transport resistance only determined by the free solution ion diffusion coefficients. This finalizes our exposition of the derivation of the various constants in the transmission line theory based on the SW-CAM technique. In conclusion, the SW-CAM technique is a robust, precise, and very informative method to perform EC analysis on two-electrode capacitive cells in aqueous solutions. 

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