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Experiment On Solubility As A Function of Temperature: A Glass Wool Plug

The document discusses an experiment to determine the solubility of substances as a function of temperature. It describes issues with traditional methods of using supersaturated solutions or insoluble substances. It then proposes a modified saturation column method that approaches equilibrium from the undersaturated side by slowly adding water to a U-shaped tube filled with particles at a controlled temperature to better obtain solubility data.

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Experiment On Solubility As A Function of Temperature: A Glass Wool Plug

The document discusses an experiment to determine the solubility of substances as a function of temperature. It describes issues with traditional methods of using supersaturated solutions or insoluble substances. It then proposes a modified saturation column method that approaches equilibrium from the undersaturated side by slowly adding water to a U-shaped tube filled with particles at a controlled temperature to better obtain solubility data.

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Experiment on Solubility as a Function of Temperature

Solubility experiments in general chemistry laboratory manuals generally


involve either work with supematurated solutioas or else they are limited to
., relatively insoluble substances. The former route, in which the temperature
of onset of crystallization is noted as a solution of asubstsnee is cooled, is often
beset with many difficulties. The induction period may be quite long, with
the resultant buildun of EI fairlv hirblv sunersatumted solution. The net re-

taining excellent result3 using the saturation temperature approaeh in the case
of four salts (KBr, KClOa, KNOa, and KLbO,), nevertheless obtained erratic
results in the case of 3 others (K2SOc N&CI, and AIPO,).
A better means of obtaining solubility data. is to use s. modified version of
a Bronsted-Davies type of saturator column (Rossorn AND ROSSOTTI,"The
Determination of Stability Constants," McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, p.
190), in which equilibrium is approached from the undersaturated side. I n
this method s. U-shaped glass tube is filled with finely ground particles of the
substance whose solubility is to be determined. The tube is put into a large
,. 1 I I beaker, the temperature is adjmted to the desired value by the addition of hot
or cold water to the bath, and distilled water (also thermostatted) is added
$opwh a t apredetermined rate to one arm of the column A glass wool plug
1s used to hold hack solid particles from the opposite arm. As saturated solu-
tion emerges past the glass wool plug, it is withdrawn by a microliter pipet,
diluted, and subjected to analysis.

Volume 48, Number 4, April 1971 / 225

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