Silver water adsorption

Water adsorption on silver surfaces exposed into a ventilated shed in an urban-rural site of Cuba was studied [13] using quartz resonators covered with a silver layer. It was determined that in these indoor conditions water adsorption significantly diminishes when air temperature increases over 25°C at relative humidity ranges of 80-90% and 90-100%. All these results confirm the idea that an upper limit of temperature should be established for the estimation of time of wetness. 

XRef - the surface potential of the probe itself. The surface potential will depend strongly on the adsorbed water layer on top of the reference metal and will be constant only under identical experimental conditions. It has been shown that the surface potential, and therefore also the work function of the reference metal, is fairly constant after a certain time due to a final stage of contamination and water adsorption. It can further be stabilized by certain reference metals, like a silver wire coated with AgCl, as then the work function seems to be given by an electrochemical equilibrium on the reference metal (Atanasoski et al., 1994). 

Surface heterogeneity may be inferred from emission studies such as those studies by de Schrijver and co-workers on P and on R adsorbed on clay minerals [197,198]. In the case of adsorbed pyrene and its derivatives, there is considerable evidence for surface mobility (on clays, metal oxides, sulfides), as from the work of Thomas [199], de Mayo and co-workers [200], Singer [201] and Stahlberg et al. [202]. There has also been evidence for ground-state bimolecular association of adsorbed pyrene [66,203]. The sensitivity of pyrene to the polarity of its environment allows its use as a probe of surface polarity [204,205]. Pyrene or ofter emitters may be used as probes to study the structure of an adsorbate film, as in the case of Triton X-100 on silica [206], sodium dodecyl sulfate at the alumina surface [207] and hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride adsorbed onto silver electrodes from water and dimethylformamide [208]. In all cases progressive structural changes were concluded to occur with increasing surfactant adsorption. 

Discussion. Very pure silver can be obtained commercially, and a standard solution can be prepared by dissolving a known weight (say, 10.787 g) in nitric acid in a conical flask having a funnel in the neck to prevent mechanical loss, and making up to a known volume (say, 1 L for a 0.1 M solution). The presence of acid must, however, be avoided in determinations with potassium chromate as indicator or in determinations employing adsorption indicators. It is therefore preferable to employ a neutral solution prepared by dissolving silver nitrate (relative molecular mass, 169.87) in water. 

Adsorption processes diagrammed, 266 Adsorption spectra of electrochromic polypyrrole, 363 Affinity for metal-water, 177 Air-solution interface, Nikitas on the potential of zero charge at, 30 Albury and Mount, interpretation of the semi-circle, 584 Alloys, potential of zero charge gold and silver, 142 tin and lead, 142 Kukk and Puttsepp on, 145 metals alloys, 141... 

Pure Ti02 was recently reported to be active in the disinfection of water contaminated by spores of the type Fusarium solani [142], Bacillus anthracis [143], or Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts [144], or when supported as nanocomposites on zeolite H(i for E. coli deactivation [145], and it found applications in water treatment as a replacement for chlorine. Ag-Ti02 immobilized systems were used for inactivation of bacteria, coupling the visible light response of the system and the strong bactericidal effect of Ag [146]. Silver was deposited on hydroxyapatite to form nanocomposites with a high capacity for bacterial adsorption and inactivation [147], or used for airborne bacterial remediation in indoor air [148],... 

A study518 of the mechanism of oxidation of alcohols by the reagent suggested that a reversible, oriented adsorption of the alcohol onto the surface of the oxidant occurs, with the oxygen atom of the alcohol forming a coordinate bond to a silver ion, followed by a concerted, irreversible, homolytic shift of electrons to generate silver atoms, carbon dioxide, water, and the carbonyl compound. The reactivity of a polyhydroxy compound may not, it appears, be deduced from the relative reactivity of its component functions, as the geometry of the adsorbed state, itself affected by solvent polarity, exerts an important influence on the selectivity observed.519... 

Cadmium is a silver-white, blue-tinged, lustrous metal that melts at 321°C and boils at 767°C. This divalent element has an atomic weight of 112.4, an atomic number of 48, and a density of 8.642 g/cm3. It is insoluble in water, although its chloride and sulfate salts are freely soluble (Windholz et al. 1976 USPHS 1993). The availability of cadmium to living organisms from their immediate physical and chemical environs depends on numerous factors, including adsorption and desorption rates of cadmium from terrigenous materials, pH, Eh, chemical speciation, and many... 

Some differences in arsenate and chromate adsorption on ODA-clinoptilolite and Pb-(Ag-linoptilolites) as well were recorded (Figs. 5 and 6). ODA-clinoptilolite exhibited more efficient arsenate and chromate removal from aqueous solutions than the inorganically exchanged modifications. However, silver exchanged clinoptilolite revealed higher capacity values for both oxyanions uptake than lead exchanged clinoptilolite did. This phenomenon supports preferred silver treated clinoptilolite utilization for specific water purification process even on the base of environmental acceptability. 

Adsorption of Ag on the surface of PdO is also an interesting option offered by colloidal oxide synthesis. Silver is a well-known promoter for the improvement of catalytic properties, primarily selectivity, in various reactions such as hydrogenation of polyunsaturated compounds." The more stable oxidation state of silver is -F1 Aquo soluble precursors are silver nitrate (halide precursors are aU insoluble), and some organics such as acetate or oxalate with limited solubility may also be used." Ag" " is a d ° ion and can easily form linear AgL2 type complexes according to crystal field theory. Nevertheless, even for a concentrated solution of AgNOs, Ag+ does not form aquo complexes." Although a solvation sphere surrounds the cation, no metal-water chemical bonds have been observed. 

The dipole moment of the adsorbed water molecules is estimated to be = 0.22 D (unit of D = 3.36 x 10 ° C m) from the slope of the observed curves shown in Fig. 5-25. Since this dipole moment is nearly one tenth of the dipole moment of gaseous water molecules (m = 1.84 D), the dipole of the adsorbed water molecules on the silver surface is suggested to be aligned almost parallel to the metal surface by forming hydrogen-bonded two-dimensional clusters of water molecules. On the other hand, bromine molecules are in the state of dissociative adsorption on the silver surface, producing adsorbed bromine atoms which receive electrons... 

Fig. 6-25. Relative change in work function, d4>, of a (100) surface of single crystal of silver as a function of adsorption coverage 6 of bromine atoms and water molecules on the clean surface, and of bromine atoms on the surface with pre-adsorbed water molecules. [From Bange-Straehler-Sass-Parsons, 1987.]...

In general, the contact adsorption of deh3drated anions changes the interfacial lattice structure of adsorbed water molecules, thereby changing the interfadal property. For example, the clean surfaces of metallic gold and silver, which are hydrophobic, become hydrophilic with the contact adsorption of dehydrated halogen anions. 

Standard silver nitrate, 0.1N. Dissolve 16.989g of the salt in 1 liter of chloride-free water and standardize against pure NaCl using the adsorption indicator method... 

On comparing the Pseudocyanine spectra of Figures 1, 2, 3, and 5 with those obtained in concentrated aqueous dye solutions (12, 56, 57, 58, 59), obvious similarities of the resulting /-states will be noted. Present and earlier data make it apparent that electronic coupling between adjacent dye molecules can produce similar /-states, regardless of whether appropriate orientation and proximity of the molecules is caused by Coulombic attraction, as in salt formation with polymeric ions, or whether it is induced by van der Waals forces. The latter are primarily involved in the formation of dye aggregates in water as well as in the charge-independent adsorption of dye monolayers at silver halide surfaces (23, 46). 

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