STUDY OF pNa OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF SODIUM DECYL, DODECYL, AND TETRADECYL SULFATES BY E.M.F. MEASUREMENTS
STUDY OF pNa OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF SODIUM DECYL, DODECYL, AND TETRADECYL SULFATES BY E.M.F. MEASUREMENTS
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电动势研究癸基、十二烷基和十四烷基硫酸钠水溶液的 pNa
DOI:
10.1021/j100804a026
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发表时间:
1963
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M. B. Epstein
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作者:
L. Shedlovsky;C. Jakob;M. B. Epstein
Electromotive forcemeasurements were made with sodium-responsive glass electrodes and saturated KC1, calomel electrodes on mixtures of sodium alkyl sulfates. Two solution pairs were studied: sodium decyl and dodecyl sulfates and sodium dodecyl and tetradecyl sulfates. Critical micelle concentrations were selected from plots of pNa vs. log c. The procedure of Mysels and Otter was used toestablish the non-micellar con-centrations in the micellar solutions of mixtures. The extent of the dissociation of sodium counterions by the micelles was estimated from the reduced data. From the activity coefficients strong interaction below the critical micelle concentration was inferred for all the mixtures except those containing more than 25 mole% of sodium decyl sulfate.The present investigation examines the behavior of aqueous solutionsof mixed colloidal electrolytes by means of electromotive force (emf) measurements based on a sodium-responsive glass electrode. Botré, Crescenzi, and Mele1 carriedout similar measurements for solutions of a few single colloidal electrolytes by using cationic organic membranes. In their discussion they treated the micelles as polyelectrolytes. It often is convenient to treat micellar solutions of colloidal electrolytes as a system of quasi-phases, one, an aqueous or non-micellar medium, within which a second, the micelles, is distributed. Lange2 recog-nized that in a micellar system, which contains two sur-face active solutes, the critical micelle concentration (cmc) varies with the relative amounts of the two solutes and that the locus of the cmc was a kind of phase boundary of theaqueous medium. On the basis of a theoretical model, Mysels and Otter3 recently em-ployed conductivity measurements to obtain the boundary of the mixed micelles and the tie lines to the aque-ous medium; they discussed also thethermodynamics of the system. It is implicit in their treatment that it may be applied to other intensive properties. We have used emf measurements both to establish the composition of the micelles and to extend the treatment of Botré, Crescenzi, and Meleto mixed systems.