Electrical permittivity

Table 8-2 lists several physical properties pertinent to our concern with the effects of solvents on rates for 40 common solvents. The dielectric constant e is a measure of the ability of the solvent to separate charges it is defined as the ratio of the electric permittivity of the solvent to the permittivity of the vacuum. (Because physicists use the symbol e for permittivity, some authors use D for dielectric constant.) Evidently e is dimensionless. The dielectric constant is the property most often associated with the polarity of a solvent in Table 8-2 the solvents are listed in order of increasing dielectric constant, and it is evident that, with a few exceptions, this ranking accords fairly well with chemical intuition. The dielectric constant is a bulk property. 

The dielectric constant of a polymer (K) (which we also refer to as relative electric permittivity or electric inductive capacity) is a measure of its interaction with an electrical field in which it is placed. It is inversely related to volume resistivity. The dielectric constant depends strongly on the polarizability of molecules tvithin the polymer. In polymers with negligible dipole moments, the dielectric constant is low and it is essentially independent of temperature and the frequency of an alternating electric field. Polymers with polar constituents have higher dielectric constants. When we place such polymers in an electrical field, their dipoles attempt... 

The electrical double layer has been dealt with in countless papers and in a number of reviews, including those published in previous volumes of the Modem Aspects of Electrochemistry series/ The experimental double layer data have been reported and commented on in several important works in which various theories of the structure of the double layer have been postulated. Nevertheless, many double layer-related problems have not been solved yet, mainly because certain important parameters describing the interface cannot be measured. This applies to the electric permittivity, dipole moments, surface density, and other physical quantities that are influenced by the electric field at the interface. It is also often difficult to separate the electrostatic and specific interactions of the solvent and the adsorbate with the electrode. To acquire necessary knowledge about the metal/solution interface, different metals, solvents, and adsorbates have been studied. 

The value of the electric permittivity of water in the inner part of the double layer is commonly accepted as equal to 6. A much higher capacity of the inner layer at the Ga/solution interface was explained by the weak interaction of gallium with water, leading to a high value of As shown... 

A similar conclusion arises from the capacitance data for the mercury electrode at far negative potentials (q 0), where anions are desorbed. In this potential range, the double-layer capacitance in various electrolytes is generally equal to ca. 0.17 F Assuming that the molecular diameter of water is 0.31 nm, the electric permittivity can be calculated as j = Cd/e0 = 5.95. The data on thiourea adsorption on different metals and in different solvents have been used to find the apparent electric permittivity of the inner layer. According to the concept proposed by Parsons, thiourea can be treated as a probe dipole. It has been cdculated for the Hg electrode that at (7 / = O.fij is equal to 11.4, 5.8, 5.1, and 10.6 in water, methanol, ethanol, and acetone, respectively. 

According to the capacitor model of the double layer, assuming constant thickness and electric permittivity, the dependence of AG° on <7m should be linear. " Deviations from linearity can be viewed as resulting from changes of X2 and/or e in the inner part of the double layer. A linear plot ofAG° vs. is observed for adsorption of ions and thiourea. ... 

Dependence of certain physical properties, like the electric permittivity, refractive index and magnetic susceptibility on direction. It is created by long-range orientational order in a mesophase, provided the corresponding molecular property is anisotropic. 

The mobility depends on both the particle properties (e.g., surface charge density and size) and solution properties (e.g., ionic strength, electric permittivity, and pH). For high ionic strengths, an approximate expression for the electrophoretic mobility, pc, is given by the Smoluchowski equation ... 

Similarly, the velocity of light in a medium is related to the electric permittivity and magnetic permeabilities in the medium, e and fi, respectively ... 

Thus, we see the initial connection between optical properties and the electrical and magnetic properties from the two previous sections. Substimtion of Eqs. (6.78) and (6.79) into (6.77) shows that the refractive index can be expressed in terms of the relative electric permittivity (dielectric constant), (cf. Table 6.5), and relative magnetic permeability of the medium, (1 - - x) [cf. Eq. (6.63)], where x is the magnetic susceptibility ... 

As its name suggests, a liquid crystal is a fluid (liquid) with some long-range order (crystal) and therefore has properties of both states mobility as a liquid, self-assembly, anisotropism (refractive index, electric permittivity, magnetic susceptibility, mechanical properties, depend on the direction in which they are measured) as a solid crystal. Therefore, the liquid crystalline phase is an intermediate phase between solid and liquid. In other words, macroscopically the liquid crystalline phase behaves as a liquid, but, microscopically, it resembles the solid phase. Sometimes it may be helpful to see it as an ordered liquid or a disordered solid. The liquid crystal behavior depends on the intermolecular forces, that is, if the latter are too strong or too weak the mesophase is lost. Driving forces for the formation of a mesophase are dipole-dipole, van der Waals interactions, 71—71 stacking and so on. 

Here e is the electric permittivity and oo is the frequency of the eigenmodes. The Abelian magnetic field is then defined by... 

TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) parts. However, Rumsey [53] detailed a secondary method of solving the same equations that effected a decomposition of the field into left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized parts. For such unique field solutions to the time-harmonic Maxwell equations (e = electric permittivity, p = magnetic permeability) ... 

The capacitance of the Helmholtz parallel plate capacitor per surface unit is given by Ch = e o/d, where er is the dielectric constant or the relative electric permittivity of the Hemholtz layer and e0 the electrical permittivity of free space (sq = 8.854 x 1CT12 C2 J 1 nr1) [3, 4]. 

In Equations 6.1 and 6.2, sp is the electric permittivity and /10 is the magnetic permeability. The solutions of Equations 6.1 and 6.2 are vectors vibrating in coordinate planes perpendicular to each other (Figure 6.1). E oscillates in the xz plane and H in the yz plane when a linearly polarized wave is propagating in the positive direction of the z-axis. 

Pressurized MAE in closed vessels This technique employs a microwave-transparent vessel for the extraction and a solvent with a high dielectric constant (electrical permittivity). Such solvents absorb microwave radiation and can thus be heated to a temperature exceeding solvent boiling points under standard conditions. Boiling does not occur, however, because the vessel is pressurized. This mode of operation is very similar to ASE—the elevated pressure and temperature facilitate extraction of the analyte from the sample. 

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