THE TRANSFERENCE NUMBERS OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. NEW DETERMINATIONS BY THE HITTORF METHOD AND A COMPARISON WITH RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE MOVING BOUNDARY METHOD
THE TRANSFERENCE NUMBERS OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE. NEW DETERMINATIONS BY THE HITTORF METHOD AND A COMPARISON WITH RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE MOVING BOUNDARY METHOD
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01355a025
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发表时间:
1931-04
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
D. Macinnes;M. Dole
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作者:
D. Macinnes;M. Dole
We have obtained, in this Laboratory, by the moving boundary method a large amount of data, for themost part still unpublished, on the transference numbers of electrolytes. Many of these data differ so widely from the published values for transference numbers obtained by the Hittorf method that the question arose seriously in our minds as to whether the two methods (the Hittorf and moving boundary) obtain measures of the same property of the solutions of electrolytes. With potassium chloride, for instance, the measurements in dilute solutions by Jahnand associates2 of the cation transference number by the Hittorf method gave values on the average 1% above the determinations by the moving boundary method. On the other hand, Dewey, 3 working at 0.2 N, obtained lower values for this constant by the Hittorf method than those obtained by MacInnes and Brighton4 and Smith and MacInnes6 using the moving boundary procedure. We have, however, found it possible to interpret the conductance and trans-ference data, as a whole, for a group of simple electrolytes provided the newer moving boundary results are used. This is far from beingtrue with reference to most of the Hittorf data now published. These new data and their interpretation will be the subject of a series of papers from this Labora-tory. It was evidently very important to find out whether the disagreement of the results of thetwo methods for obtaining transference numbers is due to