THE RECIPROCAL SALT-PAIR SYSTEM: SODIUM CHLORIDE – AMMONIUM SULPHITE – SODIUM SULPHITE – AMMONIUM CHLORIDE – WATER AT 20 °C. AND 60 °C.: PART I. TERNARY SYSTEMS

Solubility data have been obtained at 20 °C. and 60 °C. for the following ternary systems:[Formula: see text]No evidence of the formation of double salts or of solid solutions in the first three systems was obtained. Ammonium sulphite monohydrate does not appear to dehydrate at 60 °C. in solutions saturated with sodium sulphite or ammonium chloride. In the study of the NaCl–NH4Cl–H2O system, the data agree with average values obtained from the literature and some discrepancies in the published data have been noted. In the NaCl–Na2SO3–H2O system some anomalous results can be explained on the basis of the existence of solid solutions of the hydrated and anhydrous forms of sodium sulphite and sodium sulphate.