The Rôle of Hydrogen Ion Concentration in the Precipitation of Calcium and Magnesium Carbonates

1929 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1769-1780
Author(s):  
H. P. Cady ◽  
George Kemmerer ◽  
Mary E. Weeks

Previously, it has been shown for the enzyme maltase —enzyme requiring an acid medium in which to act to best advantage—that increase in the acidity or hydrogen ion concentration of the medium in which the enzyme acts, beyond the optimum acidity, leads to a fall of optimum temperature. The mechanism of his temperature of this temperature effect appears clearly to be due to a certain disablement of the enzyme activity, estimated at the optimum temperature point; which decrease of activity is itself a function of the degree of acidity of the medium in excess of that necessary to produce optimum activation. Being in this way a disablement effect, the question arises whether, by adding to the quantity of enzyme in action, the lowering of optimum temperature which takes place can be controlled. To answer that question, the experiments described in the present paper were undertaken. For the investigation, the enzyme used is the maltase of Aspergillus oryzœ , the same preparation being employed as studied by us in two previous communications, a specially active specimen of takadiastase, purified by repeated solution in water and reprecipitation by alcohol.


1954 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. McGilvery ◽  
Joan Pedley Crowther

The general rate equations for the hydrolysis of pyrophosphate anion proposed by Muus have been proved to be inapplicable over the pH range 2.0 to 11.0. A general rate equation is proposed which is based on the assumption that each anionic species of pyrophosphoric acid hydrolyzes at a rate which depends on its concentration, and that the only role of the hydrogen ion concentration is to determine the proportion of each species present in the solution. A mechanism for the hydrolysis of pyrophosphate anion is suggested.The dissociation constants of pyrophosphoric acid have been determined at 65.5 °C. for the concentration range 0.08 to 0.18 molar.


2014 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 15-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Vengust ◽  
J Richards ◽  
H Staempfli ◽  
L Viel ◽  
G Heigenhauser

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