Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1985, 50, 2525-2534
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19852525
Surface behaviour of tetrapropylammonium cation at the mercury/solution interface measured by use of controlled convective adsorptive accumulation
Ladislav Novotný and Ivan Smoler
UNESCO Laboratory of Environmental Electrochemistry at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 118 40 Prague 1
Abstract
Using drop time technique with long drop times and a controlled convection of the solution the surface tension data of Hg with tetrapropylammonium perchlorate in 0.1 mol l-1 NaClO4 in the concentration range 4 . 10-6 - 3 . 10-3 mol l-1 have been obtained. The corresponding adsorption parameters have been evaluated from the Frumkin isotherm both at constant potential E and at constant charge q. Both E and q could be chosen as an independent electrical variable. The maximum free adsorption energy amounts to approx. -36.5 kJ mol-1. The congruence of adsorption isotherms with respect to E and with respect to q was very well fulfilled for the surface coverage Θ ⪬ 0.6-0.7.
