8.2
SECTION 8
Table 8.25 Fluorescent Indicators8.120Table 8.26 Selected List of Oxidation-Reduction Indicators8.1228.6 ELECTRODE POTENTIALS8.124Table 8.27 Potentialsof the Elementsand Their Compoundsat 25
C8.124Table 8.28 Potentialsof Selected Half-Reactionsat 25
C8.137Table 8.29 Overpotentialsfor Common Electrode Reactionsat 25
C8.140Table 8.30 Half-Wave Potentialsof InorganicMaterials8.141Table 8.31 Half-Wave Potentials(vs. Saturated Calomel Electrode) of OrganicCompoundsat 25
C8.1468.7 CONDUCTANCE8.157Table 8.32 Limiting Equivalent Ionic Conductancesin AqueousSolutions8.157Table 8.33 Standard Solutionsfor Calibrating Conductivity Vessels8.160Table 8.34 Electrical Conductivity of Various Pure Liquids8.161Table 8.35 Equivalent Conductivitiesof Electrolytesin AqueousSolutionsat18
C8.163Table 8.36 Conductivity of Very Pure Water at VariousTemperaturesand theEquivalent Conductancesof Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Ions8.1688.7.1 Common Conductance Relations8.168
8.1 ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS
Although it is not possible to measure an individual ionic activity coefficient,
f
i
, it may be estimatedfrom the following equation of the Debye-Hu¨ckel theory:
2
Az I
i
p
log
f
i
1
Ba˚ I
p
where
I
is the ionic strength of the medium, and
a˚
is the ion-size parameter—the effective ionicradius (Table 8.2). The values of
A
and
B
vary with the temperature and dielectric constant of thesolvent; values from 0 to 100
C for aqueous medium (
a˚
in angstrom units) are listed in Table 8.3.Corresponding values of
A
and
B
for unit weight of solvent (when employing molality) can beobtained by multiplying the corresponding values for unit volume (molarity units) by the squareroot of the density of water at the appropriate temperature.The ionic strength can be estimated from the summation of the product molarity timesionic charge squared for all the ionic species present in the solution, i.e.,
2
I
0.5(
c z
1 12 2
c z
···
c z
).
2 2
i i
Values for the activity coefficients of ions in water at 25
C are given in Table 8.1 in terms of their effective ionic radii.At moderate ionic strengths a considerable improvement is effected by subtracting a term
bI
fromthe Debye-Hu¨ckel expression;
b
is an adjustable parameter which is 0.2 for water at 25
C. Table 8.4gives the values of the ionic activity coefficients (for
z
i
from 1 to 6) with
a˚
taken to be 4.6A˚.In general, the mean ionic activity coefficient is given by
(
x
y
)
x y
f
f f
p