Electromotive Forces and Electrode Potentials in Pyride and Its Binary Mixtures with Water, Methyl Alcohol and Ethyl Alcohol

Authors

F. S. Moretimer, The State University of Iowa
J. N. Pearce, The State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The systematic study of the electromotive forces in non-aqueous solvents was begun by Jones. By using cells of the type: Ag-AgNO₃aq , — AgNO₃non-aq. -Ag with the same concentration of the salt in each solvent, he hoped to be able to calculate the degree of dissociation in the nonaqueous solutions. It soon became apparent, however, that the solution pressure of a metal varies from solvent to solvent. Substituting the values found by Völlmer for the degree of dissociation of silver nitrate in ethyl alcohol, he calculated the ratio of the solution pressure of silver in alcohol and in water to be between 0.021 and 0.024. In all of these measurements the alcoholic solutions are positive with respect to the water solutions.

Publication Date

1916

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

23

Issue

1

First Page

51

Last Page

72

Copyright

©1916 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Moretimer, F. S. and Pearce, J. N. (1916) "Electromotive Forces and Electrode Potentials in Pyride and Its Binary Mixtures with Water, Methyl Alcohol and Ethyl Alcohol," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 23(1), 51-72.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol23/iss1/11