- Title
- Activity-based analysis of potentiometric pH titrations
- Creator
- Karimvand, Somaiyeh K.; Xuan, Anh N.; Abdollahi, Hamid; Burns, Robert; Clifford, Sarah; Maeder, Marcel; McCann, Nichola; Neuhold, Yorck-Michael; Puxty, Graeme
- Relation
- Analytica Chimica Acta Vol. 1075, p. 49-56
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2019.05.002
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The discrepancy between concentrations and activities is a predicament well known to the analytical chemist. Because of the difficulty of determining activity coefficients, the standard technique for quantitative equilibrium studies is to work under a particular ‘constant ionic strength’ by adding an excess of an inert salt. Under such conditions, activity coefficients are approximately constant and can be taken into the equilibrium constants which are defined for the chosen ionic strength (I). Here we propose a fundamentally different approach. Throughout the numerical analysis of the titration data, activity coefficients for all individual species are approximated by well-known equations based on the work of Debye-Hückel. The computational analysis of the measurements strictly obeys the law of mass conservation and obeys the law of mass action only approximately. The main novelty is that now the addition of inert salts is no longer required and measurements are done at minimal I. Consequently, the thermodynamic equilibrium constants are now determined much more robustly based on experiments taken at low I. The approach has been tested and validated with the two very well investigated 3-protic phosphoric and citric acids. In summary: the technique of artificially keeping ionic strength constant has been replaced by improved computational analysis.
- Subject
- activity coefficients; potentiometric titration; pH titration; law of mass action
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1413811
- Identifier
- uon:36676
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-2670
- Rights
- © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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