Potassium chloride conductivity

Structural effects will probably affect kinetic properties, and as an example we mention the measurements by Brummer and Hills (15) of the volume of activation for potassium chloride conduction in water... 

Conduction furnaces utilize a Hquid at the operating temperature to transfer the heat from the heating elements to the work being processed. Some furnaces have a pot filled with a low melting metal, eg, lead, or a salt mixture, eg, sodium chloride and potassium chloride, with a radiation-type furnace surrounding the pot. Although final heat transfer to the work is by conduction from the hot lead or salt to the work, the initial transfer of heat from the resistors to the pot is by radiation. 

The concentration of dissolved ionic substances can be roughly estimated by multiplying the specific conductance by an empirical factor of 0.55—0.9, depending on temperature and soluble components. Since specific conductance is temperature dependent, all samples should be measured at the same temperature. Alternatively, an appropriate temperature-correction factor obtained by comparisons with known concentrations of potassium chloride may be used. Instmments are available that automatically correct conductance measurements for different temperatures. 

An examination has, therefore, been made of the effect of solutions of potassium chloride on the electrolytic resistance of films cast from a penta-erythritol alkyd, a phenolformaldehyde tung oil and an epoxypolyamide varnishPotassium chloride was chosen because its conductivity is well known and unpigmented films were first examined in order to eliminate the complexities of polymer/pigment interaction. 

When samples of about 1 cm were taken from a single cast film of 100 X 200 mm of a number of paint and varnish films, their resistances varied with the concentration of potassium chloride solution in one of two ways (Fig. 14.2). Either the resistance increased with increasing concentration of the electrolyte (inverse or / conduction) or the resistance of the film followed that of the solution in which it was immersed (direct or D conduction). The percentage of / and D samples taken from different castings varied, but average values for a number of castings were 50% D for the pentaerythritol alkyd and the tung oil phenol formaldehyde varnishes, 57% for urethane alkyd, 76% for epoxypolyamide and 78% for polyurethane varnishes... 

The phenomenon of ion exchange has been confirmed by chemical analysis Films were exposed to potassium chloride solutions of increasing pH, ashed and their potassium content determined by flame photometry. It was found that the potassium content of the films increased as the pH of the solutions rose until saturation was reached at a value which corresponded to that of the change-over in the mechanism of conduction. It was concluded that the change-over in the mechanism of conduction corresponded to the point at which the exchange capacity of the film had reached its limit. 

Mobility of Ions in D20. The viscosity of liquid D20 at room temperature has a value 1,232 times the viscosity of H20. Since the D2O and HaO molecules are so similar in other respects, we should expect the mobility of ions dissolved in D20 to be smaller than in H20. The conductivity of potassium chloride and potassium acetate was measured in mixtures of D20 and H20 up to a composition containing 97 per cent of D20.1 The values for ions in D2O, given in Table 7, were obtained by extrapolation from values obtained in the mixed solvent containing a few per cent of H20. As was expected, the conductivity in D20 was found to be smaller than in H20. But the change was not quite so great as the change in the viscosity, as is shown by the ratios in the last column of Table 7. We must conclude that, for some or all of the ions, the... 

An element of uncertainty is introduced into the e.m.f. measurement by the liquid junction potential which is established at the interface between the two solutions, one pertaining to the reference electrode and the other to the indicator electrode. This liquid junction potential can be largely eliminated, however, if one solution contains a high concentration of potassium chloride or of ammonium nitrate, electrolytes in which the ionic conductivities of the cation and the anion have very similar values. 

Reference electrodes are usually a calomel or a silver-silver chloride electrode. It is advisable that these be of the double-junction pattern so that potassium chloride solution from the electrode does not contaminate the test solution. Thus, for example, in titrations involving glacial acetic acid as solvent, the outer vessel of the double junction calomel electrode may be filled with glacial acetic acid containing a little lithium perchlorate to improve the conductance. 

The permeability tests for alkali metal ions in the aqueous solution were also conducted. When an aqueous salt solution moves to cell 2 through the membrane from cell 1, the apparent diffusion coefficient of the salt D can be deduced from a relationship among the cell volumes Vj and V2, the solution concentration cx and c2, the thickness of membrane, and time t6 . In Table 12, permeabilities of potassium chloride and sodium chloride through the 67 membrane prepared by the casting polymerization technique from the monomer solution in THF or DMSO are compared with each other and with that the permeability through Visking dialyzer tubing. The... 

In a typical study of conductivity. Cook (1982) used a cell consisting of two platinum disc electrodes, 12 mm in diameter and 1-5 mm apart. The setting AB cement was examined in this cell which had been calibrated using a standard solution of0 02 M potassium chloride. Plots were recorded of spedfic conductance against time for each of the setting cements. For zinc polycarboxylate there was found to be a rapid drop in spedfic conductance about 10 minutes after the start of mixing. This behaviour was consistent with the replacement of relatively mobile protons by significantly less mobile zinc ions in the polycarboxylate chain. Con-... 

Attention is fourthly focused on Figure 6.5 (D) which shows titration of potassium chloride against silver nitrate. Here, the change in conductivity on the addition of silver nitrate is minimal, as the mobilities of potassium and silver ions are of the same order and the curve is nearly horizontal. 

The electrolyte is made by in situ chlorination of vanadium to vanadium dichloride in a molten salt bath. Higher valent chlorides are difficult to retain in the bath and thus are not preferred. The molten bath, which is formed by sodium chloride or an equimolar mixture of potassium chloride-sodium chloride or of potassium chloride-lithium chloride or of sodium chloride-calcium chloride, is contained in a graphite crucible. The crucible also serves as an anode. Electrolysis is conducted at a temperature about 50 °C above the melting point of the salt bath, using an iron or a molybdenum cathode and a cathode current density of 25 to 75 A dnT2. The overall electrochemical deposition reaction involves the formation and the discharge of the divalent ionic species, V2+ ... 

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In order to obtain metallic lithium, A. Guntz electrolyzed a mixture of equal arts of lithium and potassium chlorides and 0. Ruff and 0. Johannsen obtained etter results with a mixture of lithium bromide with 10 to 15 per cent, of the chloride. The electrolysis is conducted in a graphite retort with a thick iron wire as cathode, and a current of 100 amps, at 10 volts gave an 80 per cent, yield. 

Gropp measured the conductivity of liquid and frozen soln. of lithium, sodium, and potassium chlorides. F. Ratig studied the electro-chemical action—vide alkali chlorates. The electrical conductivity of soln. of lithium chloride in several non-aqueous solvents has been investigated. Formic acid as a solvent exerts an ionizing power of the same order of magnitude as water in acetic acid, the lithium chloride seems to be partially associated to double molecules, > and in some solvent,... 

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