Dissolved solutes

A measure of the extent to which a solution, or a localized region of solution, contains more dissolved solute than that expected at equilibrium RSS). 

One of the first successful techniques for selectively removing solvent from a solution without losing the dissolved solute was to add the solution dropwise to a moving continuous belt. The drops of solution on the belt were heated sufficiently to evaporate the solvent, and the residual solute on the belt was carried into a normal El (electron ionization) or Cl (chemical ionization) ion source, where it was heated more strongly so that it in turn volatilized and could be ionized. However, the moving-belt system had some mechanical problems and could be temperamental. The more recent, less-mechanical inlets such as electrospray have displaced it. The electrospray inlet should be compared with the atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) inlet, which is described in Chapter 9. 

At 37°C the viscosity of water is about 0.69 X 10"3 kg m" sec" the difference between this figure and the viscosity of blood is due to the dissolved solutes in the serum and the suspended cells in the blood. The latter are roughly oblate ellipsoids of revolution in shape. 

The rate (kinetics) and the completeness (fraction dissolved) of oxide fuel dissolution is an inverse function of fuel bum-up (16—18). This phenomenon becomes a significant concern in the dissolution of high bum-up MO fuels (19). The insoluble soHds are removed from the dissolver solution by either filtration or centrifugation prior to solvent extraction. Both financial considerations and the need for safeguards make accounting for the fissile content of the insoluble soHds an important challenge for the commercial reprocessor. If hydrofluoric acid is required to assist in the dissolution, the excess fluoride ion must be complexed with aluminum nitrate to minimize corrosion to the stainless steel used throughout the facility. Also, uranium fluoride complexes are inextractable and formation of them needs to be prevented. 

Electrically assisted transdermal dmg deflvery, ie, electrotransport or iontophoresis, involves the three key transport processes of passive diffusion, electromigration, and electro osmosis. In passive diffusion, which plays a relatively small role in the transport of ionic compounds, the permeation rate of a compound is deterrnined by its diffusion coefficient and the concentration gradient. Electromigration is the transport of electrically charged ions in an electrical field, that is, the movement of anions and cations toward the anode and cathode, respectively. Electro osmosis is the volume flow of solvent through an electrically charged membrane or tissue in the presence of an appHed electrical field. As the solvent moves, it carries dissolved solutes. 

Fig. 1. General dialysis is a process by which dissolved solutes move through a membrane in response to a difference in concentration and in the absence of differences in pressure, temperature, and electrical potential. The rate of mass transport or solute flux, ( ), is directly proportional to the difference in concentration at the membrane surfaces (eq. 1). Boundary layer effects, the difference between local and wall concentrations, are important in most...

Recovery of the solvent, sometimes by chemical means but more often by distillation, is almost always required, and the recoveiy system ordinarily is considered an integral part of the absorption-system process design. A more efficient solvent-stripping operation normally will result in a less costly absorber because of a smaller concentration of residual dissolved solute in the regenerated solvent however, this may increase the overall cost of solvent recoveiy. A more detailed discussion of these and other economic considerations is presented later in this section. 

For dilute concentrations of manv gases and over a fairly wide range for some gases, the equihbrium relationship is given by Henry s law, which relates the partial pressure developed by a dissolved solute A in a liquid solvent B by one of the following equations ... 

Crystallization Solutes may be crystallized from supercritical fluids by temperature and/or pressure changes, and by the PCA process described above. In the rapid expansion from supercritical solution (BESS) process, a SCR containing a dissolved solute is expanded through a nozzle or orifice in less than 1 ms to form small particles or fibers. A variety of inorganic crystals have been formed naturally and synthetically in SCR water. 

As we saw in Chapter 10, the stress required to make a crystalline material deform plastically is that needed to make the dislocations in it move. Their movement is resisted by (a) the intrinsic lattice resistance and (b) the obstructing effect of obstacles (e.g. dissolved solute atoms, precipitates formed with undissolved solute atoms, or other dislocations). Diffusion of atoms can unlock dislocations from obstacles in their path, and the movement of these unlocked dislocations under the applied stress is what leads to dislocation creep. 

The change in dissolved solute between inlet and outlet of the vessel is matched by the gain in solid crystal mass. Thus, on a unit volume basis... 

A third method, or phenomenon, capable of generating a pseudo reaction order is exemplified by a first-order solution reaction of a substance in the presence of its solid phase. Then if the dissolution rate of the solid is greater than the reaction rate of the dissolved solute, the solute concentration is maintained constant by the solubility equilibrium and the first-order reaction becomes a pseudo-zero-order reaction. 

Osmotic pressure from high concentrations of dissolved solutes is a serious problem for cells. Bacterial and plant cells have strong, rigid cell walls to contain these pressures. In contrast, animal cells are bathed in extracellular fluids of comparable osmolarity, so no net osmotic gradient exists. Also, to minimize the osmotic pressure created by the contents of their cytosol, cells tend... 

Now, we should ask ourselves about the properties of water in this continuum of behavior mapped with temperature and pressure coordinates. First, let us look at temperature influence. The viscosity of the liquid water and its dielectric constant both drop when the temperature is raised (19). The balance between hydrogen bonding and other interactions changes. The diffusion rates increase with temperature. These dependencies on temperature provide uS with an opportunity to tune the solvation properties of the liquid and change the relative solubilities of dissolved solutes without invoking a chemical composition change on the water. 

In a thermodynamic sense, the compatibility of polymers is similar to the dissolving solute in a solvent. The thermodynamic standard of solubility is the free energy of mixing Ga. If AGm < 0, then two components are soluble to each other. According to the definition ... 

A secondary standard is a substance which may be used for standardisations, and whose content of the active substance has been found by comparison against a primary standard. It follows that a secondary standard solution is a solution in which the concentration of dissolved solute has not been determined from the weight of the compound dissolved but by reaction (titration) of a volume of the solution against a measured volume of a primary standard solution. 

Lord Ivelvin has pointed out that the similarity between the laws of gases and of dilute solutions carries with it no inference as to physical similarity between the states, although Boltzmann has developed a theory of osmotic phenomena which regards the pressure as due to a bombardment of the semipermeable wall by the molecules of dissolved solute, whilst it is subjected to equal and opposite forces by bombardment from the solvent molecules inside and outside. 

The determination of the state of the dissolved solute is possible if two measurements are made, for if we denote all the above magnitudes by dashed symbols for the second solution ... 

Freezing, which also produces residual fluids with elevated concentrations of dissolved solutes, presumably does not have as significant... 

We developed the concept of the mole In terms of pure chemical substances, but many chemical reactions take place In solution. To treat solution reactions quantitatively, we need ways to apply the mole concept to solutions. A substance used to dissolve solutes Is a solvent, and a pure substance dissolved In solution Is a solute. Most of the time, the solvent Is a liquid and Is present In much larger quantities than any solutes. 

Any solution contains at least two chemical species, the solvent and one or more solutes. The mass of a solution is the sum of the masses of the solvent and all dissolved solutes. To answer questions such as How much is there about solutions, we need to know the amount of each solute present in a specified volume of solution. The amount of a solute in a solution is given by the concentration, which is the ratio of the amount of solute to the amount of solution. In chemistry the most common measure of concentration is molarity (M). Molarity is the number of moles of solute (n) divided by the total volume of the solution (V) in liters ... 

In most laboratories, electrochemistiy is practiced under nonstandard conditions. That is, concentrations of dissolved solutes often are not 1 M, and gases are not necessarily at 1 bar. Recall from Chapter 14 that ZlG changes with concentration and pressure. The equation that links A G ° with free energy changes under nonstandard conditions is Equation AG = AG° + i 7 lng Here, Q is the reaction quotient. 

The data shown in Figures 6 A-D indicate that while the smaller particles 85, 98 eind 109 nm are indistinguishable from the dissolved solute, sodium dichromate, in as far as detector behaviour is concerned, the detector response differs significantly for the larger diameter particles. The reduced peak area and hence t irbi-dity indicated for the larger particles is a direct result of the optical effects noted earlier. The observations are consistent with the findings of Heller and Tabibian that the corona effect... 

Dispersion forces, the so-called London forces 5, are the highest when solute and solvent electrons are polarized. These forces are high when the refractive index values are high. Solvents with high refractive indexes will dissolve solutes with high refractive indexes. 

The solubility of a drug in any specified particular solvent is also determined by its interactions within the solvent. The activity of a dissolved solute is related to its concentration through an activity coefficient, i.e. ... 

From groundwater flow that already has dissolved solute... 

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