Detergency of Alkaline Salt Solutions-II. Lowering of Interfacial Tension

1932 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1051-1057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Foster Dee snell

It has been shown by Evans (1937) that the effects of the alkali metal chlorides at a hexane-water interface are markedly similar to the effects of the same salts on the surface tension of water as determined by Heydweiller (1910) and Schwenker (1931), i.e. the tension apparently increases steadily with concentration. Hence, from the Gibbs adsorption principle, the salt is negatively adsorbed throughout. The recent work of Jones and Ray (1937) has, however, demonstrated that the surface tension of the salt solutions examined by them first decreases with increase of concentration, passes through a minimum and subsequently increases beyond the value possessed by pure water. On general grounds it would be expected that phenomena similar to those observed by Jones and Ray at the free surface should likewise be exhibited at an interface. In an attempt to investigate this point interfacial tension data have been obtained for the interface dekalin ( trans -decahydro- naphthalene)/water, using salts of various valence type.


1933 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Foster Dee Snell
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1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.T. Hobbs ◽  
T.B. Edwards
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