Relation of crystalline forms I, III, IV, and V of anhydrous sodium sulfate as determined by the third law of thermodynamics
Relation of crystalline forms I, III, IV, and V of anhydrous sodium sulfate as determined by the third law of thermodynamics
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热力学第三定律确定的无水硫酸钠晶型I、III、IV、V的关系
DOI:
10.1021/j100649a024
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发表时间:
1972
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通讯作者:
W. Giauque
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作者:
G. Brodale;W. Giauque
The heat capacity of metastable Na2S04 (III) has been measured from 15 to 300 K. These data, in combina-tion with the calorimetric heat of transition from stable Na2S04 (V) to NaaSChflll), and available calorimetric data at temperatures above 300 K, have been used with the third law of thermodynamics to show that Na2S04-(III) is metastable at all temperatures from 0 to 517 K, where it is in equilibrium with Na2S04 (V), which has itself become metastable. Na2S04 (III) has previously been considered to be a stable phase at temperatures above 458 K. A phase Na2S04 (IV) was found to have an enthalpy content 75 cal/mol above that of Na2-S04 (V) and this has been taken as the heat of transition from stable Na2S04 (V) to stable Na2S04 (IV) at 458 K. The upper limit of stability for Na2S04 (IV) was taken as 514 K. These two temperatures, 458 and 514 K, had been found to be the only stable transition temperatures by Kracek and Gibson, who used a bomb con-taining the solid in contact with aqueous solution to obtain equilibrium. Heat capacity, entropy, enthalpy, and free energy functions have been tabulatedfor Na2S04 (V, IV, III, and I). These datapredict that Na2S04 (I), the form stable between 514 K and the melting point, can undergo a transition, Na2S04 (I) to Na2S04 (III) at 509 K, in which both phases are metastable. Thistransition temperature had also been noted by Kracek and Gibson, using dry Na2S04, although they ascribed it to the transition Na2S04 (I)-* Na2S04 (II).Interest in the relationship of the sodium sulfate sys-tem to the third law of thermodynamics in this labora-tory started with the discovery of Pitzer and Coulter 2 that the decahydrate has residual entropy when cooled to limiting low temperatures. After many other hy-drates had been investigated here without the discovery of other cases of such residual entropyit seemed desir-able to check the work on Na2S04· 10H2O. The prin-cipal reason for this was the accumulated experience in this laboratory relating to the difficulty which can be caused by assuming that the overall analysis for water in a hydrated crystal gives a true account of the phases present. Brodale and Giauque3 repeated the work on Na2S04· 10H2 (), including the heats of aqueous solution under conditions such that the phases were definitely known. Their experiments confirmed the residual en-tropy result of Pitzer and Coulter. 2 There was and is no reason to question the low temperature heat capacity measurements of Pitzer and Coulter on the form of an-hydrous Na2S04 (Form V) stable at ordinary temperatures. However, Brodale and Giauque decided that it would be of interest to measure the heat capacity of a thermodynamically unstable form of anhydrous Na2S04 (Form III) which was believed to resist transition due to slow reaction rate. The relationship between the Na2S04 (III) and Na2S04 (V) forms appeared to offer an interesting third law comparison. Although the heat capacities and heats of solution were completed, attempts to combine the results with the then available information at higher temperatures indicated some lack of understanding with respect tothe high temperature