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Rate law flooding. The second-order rate constant for the reaction between the hydrated ions of vanadium(3+) and chromium(2+) depends on [H+ ]. From the data given, which refer to T = 25.0 °C and a constant ionic strength of 0.500 M, formulate a two-parameter equation that describes the functional dependence. Evaluate the two constants. Compare your result to the one derived in to Problem 1 -2. 

The details of the influence that electrostatic surface forces on the stability of foam films is discussed in Section 3.3. As already mentioned, the electrostatic disjoining pressure is determined (at constant electrolyte concentration) by the potential of the diffuse electric layer at the solution/air interface. This potential can be evaluated by the method of the equilibrium foam film (Section 3.3.2) which allows to study the nature of the charge, respectively, the potential. Most reliable results are derived from the dependence foam film thickness on pH of the surfactant solution at constant ionic strength. The effect of the solution pH is clearly pronounced the potential of the diffuse electric layer drops to zero at certain critical pH value. We have named it pH isoelectric (pH ). As already mentioned pH is an intrinsic parameter for each surfactant and is related to its electrochemical behaviour at the solution/air interface. Furthermore, it is possible to find conditions under which the electrostatic interactions in foam films could be eliminated when the ionic strength is not very high. 

The Margules expansion model has been tested on some ionic systems over very wide ranges of composition, but over limited ranges of temperature and pressure (33,34). In this study, the model is applied over a wider range of temperature and pressure, from 25-350 C and from 1 bar or saturation pressure to 1 kb. NaCl and KCl are major solute components in natural fluids and there are abundant experimental data from which their fit parameters can be evaluated. Models based on the ion-interaction ajiproach are available for NaCl(aq) and KCl(aq) (8,9), but these are accurate only to about 6 molal. Solubilities of NaCl and KCl in water, however, reach 12 and 20 m, respectively, at 350 C, and ionic strengths of NaCl-KCl-H20 solutions reach more than 30 m at this temperature (35). The objective of this study is to describe the thermodynamic properties, particularly the osmotic and activity coefficients, of NaCl(aq) and KCl(aq) to their respective saturation concentrations in binary salt-H20 mixtures and in ternary NaCl-KCl-H20 systems, and to apply the Margules expansion model to solubility calculations to 350 C. 

We have evaluated the effect of ionic strength on the kinetic parameters of lactose hydrolysis with (3-galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae in Mcllvaine citrate-phosphate buffer at concentrations from 50 to 400 mM and found an increase in K but almost no effect on V (kcat). Studies on the effect of ionic strength on enzyme kinetics are not usual, so that works with acetylcholinesterase (Nolte et al. 1980), myosin kinase (Blumenthal and Stull 1982) and cytochrome C (Hazzard et al. 1991 Harris et al. 1994) are worth mentioning. Combined effect of pH and ionic strength on enzyme kinetics has been recently analyzed (Alberty 2006). 

The oxidation of L-tyrosine by hexachloroiridate(lV) exhibits first-order dependence on both Ir(IV) and L-tyrosine. The reaction rate increases with increase in ionic strength and decreases with increase in acidity. Dityrosine has been identified as the main product, activation parameters have been evaluated, and a mechanism has been suggested. DFT study of the oxidation of a guanine nucleotide by platinum(lV) indicated that a key step in the mechanism is electron transfer from guanine to platinum(lV). It has been shown that out of several different Pt(lV)-guanine adducts, one which is formed from replacement of an axial chlorine ligand in the platinum(lV) complex undergoes oxidation more easily. The oxidation of adenine is found to be more difficult as it involves disruption of an aromatic jt system. ... 

The electron self-exchange rate constant and activation parameters have been determined for trypsin-solubilized bovine liver microsomal cytochrome bs, and the reorganizational energies have been evaluated. The rate constant increases with ionic strength from 2.6x 10 s at 0.1 Af to... 

The ionic strength dependence of the stability constant of CaOH, together with that of the solubility constant of portlandite, has been re-evaluated in the present work in a number of supporting electrolytes and at various temperatures from the data of Johnston and Grove (1931) and Yeatts and Marshall (1967). Values obtained for the ion interaction parameters are listed in Table 7.15. 

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