Ionic solutes, separation

In later experiments with ionic solutions separated by porous membranes, significant deviations of the magnitude of 1/f noise intensity from that predicted by Hooge s formula were found (61). For single holes of 5-fim diameter in 12.5- xm-thick Mylar film in 0.1-M KCl aqueous solution, the 1/f noise can be described by the much lower value of a = 10 2. 

Another approach, also based on thermodynamic equilibrium concepts, invokes the Donnan equilibrium potential, which for univalent ionic solutions separated by a membrane gives... 

Ionic conductors arise whenever there are mobile ions present. In electrolyte solutions, such ions are nonually fonued by the dissolution of an ionic solid. Provided the dissolution leads to the complete separation of the ionic components to fonu essentially independent anions and cations, the electrolyte is tenued strong. By contrast, weak electrolytes, such as organic carboxylic acids, are present mainly in the undissociated fonu in solution, with the total ionic concentration orders of magnitude lower than the fonual concentration of the solute. Ionic conductivity will be treated in some detail below, but we initially concentrate on the equilibrium stmcture of liquids and ionic solutions. 

Liquid Junction Potentials A liquid junction potential develops at the interface between any two ionic solutions that differ in composition and for which the mobility of the ions differs. Consider, for example, solutions of 0.1 M ITCl and 0.01 M ITCl separated by a porous membrane (Figure 11.6a). Since the concentration of ITCl on the left side of the membrane is greater than that on the right side of the membrane, there is a net diffusion of IT " and Ck in the direction of the arrows. The mobility of IT ", however, is greater than that for Ck, as shown by the difference in the... 

The Viscosity of Ionic Solutions. The B-coefficients. Assignment of B-coefficients to Separate Ions. The Acetate Ion. The Sign of the B-coefficient and the Magnitude of C. The Magnitude of the B-coeffiicient and of CJ8. 

The popularity of reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPC) is easily explained by its unmatched simplicity, versatility and scope [15,22,50,52,71,149,288-290]. Neutral and ionic solutes can be separated simultaneously and the rapid equilibration of the stationary phase with changes in mobile phase composition allows gradient elution techniques to be used routinely. Secondary chemical equilibria, such as ion suppression, ion-pair formation, metal complexatlon, and micelle formation are easily exploited in RPC to optimize separation selectivity and to augment changes availaple from varying the mobile phase solvent composition. Retention in RPC, at least in the accepted ideal sense, occurs by non-specific hydrophobic interactions of the solute with the... 

In electrogravimetry, also called electrodeposition, an element, e.g., a metal such as copper, is completely precipitated from its ionic solution on an inert cathode, e.g., platinum gauze, via electrolysis and the amount of precipitate is established gravimetrically in the newer and more selective methods one applies slow electrolysis (without stirring) or rapid electrolysis (with stirring), both procedures either with a controlled potential or with a constant current. Often such a method is preceded by an electrolytic separation using a stirred cathodic mercury pool, by means of which elements such as Fe, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn and Cd are quantitatively taken up from an acidic solution whilst other elements remain in solution. 

Ionic solutes can be separated by ion-exchange chromatography using microparticulate resins or bonded ion-exchangers based on microparticulate silica. Such separations are often achieved more easily by ion-suppression or ion-pairing techniques, which use bonded phase columns in the reverse phase mode. 

We can exploit the new results for packing contributions to reconsider the outer shell contribution in Eq. (33). For ionic solutes, the outer shell term would represent the Born contribution because it describes a hard ion stripped of any inner shell ligands. A Born model based on a picture of a dielectric continuum solvent is reasonable (see Section III,B, and Fig. 9, color insert). With that motivation, we first separate the outer shell term into an initial packing contribution and an approximate electrostatic contribution as... 

The surface sites and complexes lie in a layer on the mineral surface which, because of the charged complexes, has a net electrical charge that can be either positive or negative. A second layer, the diffuse layer, separates the surface layer from the bulk fluid. The role of the diffuse layer is to achieve local charge balance with the surface hence, its net charge is opposite that of the sorbing surface. Double layer theory, applied to a mixed ionic solution, does not specify which ions make up the diffuse layer. 

Temkin was the first to derive the ideal solution model for an ionic solution consisting of more than one sub-lattice [13]. An ionic solution, molten or solid, is considered as completely ionized and to consist of charged atoms anions and cations. These anions and cations are distributed on separate sub-lattices. There are strong Coulombic interactions between the ions, and in the solid state the positively charged cations are surrounded by negatively charged anions and vice versa. In the Temkin model, the local chemical order present in the solid state is assumed to be present also in the molten state, and an ionic liquid is considered using a quasi-lattice approach. If the different anions and the different cations have similar physical properties, it is assumed that the cations mix randomly at the cation sub-lattice and the anions randomly at the anion sub-lattice. 

An analogous expression can be derived for an ionic solution with a common cation, and the ideal entropy for a system AC-BD is twice as large as that for the AC-BC system. This approach can also be used for an alloy Aj B C, where the atoms A and B are randomly distributed on one sub-lattice and C fills completely the second separate sub-lattice. 

The magnitude of V relates to interactions between the electrode and nearby ions nestling within the interface separating the electrode and the ionic solution. Since the effective (visible) charge on the ions decreases, so the electrode perceives there to be fewer of them. In other words, it perceives the concentration to have dipped below the actual concentration. This perceived decrease in the number of charges then causes the voltmeter to read a different, smaller value of ECui+Cu. 

The brain does not send a continuous current through the nerve, but short spurts . We call them impulses, which transfer between nerve fibres within the synapses of cells (see Figure 7.16). The cell floats within an ionic solution called plasma. The membrane separating the synapse from the solution with which the nerve fibre is in contact surrounding the cell is the axon, and is essential to the nerve s operation. 

Also attracting growing attention is the phase coexistence curve characteristic of ionic systems it plays a role in some ionic solution phenomena, although examples in aqueous solutions are not known at this time. Other new features are the intense concentration dependence - at low concentration - of certain of the Hamed coefficients that characterize mixed electrolyte solutions and the evidence for a solvent-separated state of the hydrophobic bond, the attractive force between hydrophobic ions, even those of zero charge, in water. 

An adsorbed layer of water molecules at the interface separates hydrated ions from the solid surface. The interfacial electric double layer can be represented by a condenser model comprising three distinct layers a diffuse charge layer in the ionic solution, a compact layer of adsorbed water molecules, and a diffuse charge layer in the solid as shown in Fig. 5-8. The interfacial excess charge on the... 

Pinkston et al. [65] showed that the addition of low levels of ammonium salts to the modifiers allows the separation of polar and even ionic solutes such as sulfonate salts. 

When dissolved in water, the ions in an ionic compound separate, or dissociate. As the ions dissociate, electrons are free to move about in the solution. As these electrons move, it is possible for them to carry an electric current. 

Solvent extraction rarely involves gases, so that other cases should now be considered. Most liquid organic solutes are completely miscible with, or at least highly soluble in, most organic solvents. The case of a liquid solute that forms a solute-rich liquid phase that contains an appreciable concentration of the solvent is related to the mutual solubility of two solvents, and has been discussed in section 2.2. This leaves solid solutes that are in equilibrium with their saturated solution. It is expedient to discuss organic, nonelectrolytic solutes separately from salts or other ionic solutes. 

With particular reference to reverse osmosis systems involving cellulose acetate membranes and aqueous solutions, the membrane material has both polar and nonpolar character, and the solvent, of course, is polar. When these two components of the reverse osmosis system are kept constant, preferential sorption at the membrane-solution interface, and, in turn, solute separation in reverse osmosis, may be expected to be controlled by the chemical nature of the solute. If the latter can be expressed by appropriate quantitative physicochemical parameters representing polar-, steric-, nonpolar-, and/or ionic-character of the solutes, then one can expect unique correlations to exist between such parameters and reverse osmosis data on solute separations for each membrane. Experimental results confirm that such is indeed the case (18). 

Reversed-phase ion-pair chromatography is primarily used for the separation of mixtures of ionic and ionizable compounds. In this chromatographic mode, a pairing ion is added to the mobile phase in order to modulate the retention of the ionic solutes. The pairing ion is an organic ion such as alkylsulfonate, alkylsulfate, alkylamine, tetraalkylammonium ion, etc. Here, only a very brief description of the main ideas behind the electrostatic model for ion-pair chromatography is presented. For a complete discussion, the reader is referred to Ref. [7,8] and the references therein. 

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