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THE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT OF LEAD IN MOLTEN CHLORIDES (in Russian)

Journal Article · · Doklady Akad. Nauk, S.S.S.R.
OSTI ID:4769920
A chronopotentiometric method was used to measure the diffusion of PbC1/ sub 2/ (0.1 to 0.2 mole %) in NaCl, KCl, and a ixture of NaCl and KCl. A rectangular polished plate of latinum with an area of about 1 cm/sup 2/ served as the cathode. used lead in a quartz tube connected with the melt by a pillary served as an anode and comparison electrode. All measurements were carried out in an atmosphere of argon. A plot of 1/T versus lg DELTA (the diffusion coefficient) gave a straight line, and showed that the following relationship was valid: DELTA -- DELTA /sub 0/ exp (--W/RT). The activation energies for the diffusion of lead ions in KCl, NaCl, and NaCl--KCl mixtures were calculated to be 2120, 1670, and 1410 cal/mole respectively. Complexing of lead was noted in the KCl--NaCl mixtures, and especially in pure KCl. It is assumed that the apparent diffusion coefficient at high current densities is related to the actual diffusion coefficient as follows: DELTA /sub act/.= DELTA STA1 + (1/K)!/sup 2/. Here K is the dissociation constant of the complex. The values for the dissociation constants of the lead complex in a PbCl/sub 2/--KCl mixture were calculated to be 10.0 at 965 deg , 0.1 at 942 deg , 8.3 at 914 deg , 6.2 at 863 deg , 5.5 at 833 deg , and 5.6 at 811 deg K. These values of the dissociation constants are close to values quoted in the literature for the lead chloride complex in fused nitrate salts. (TTT)
Research Organization:
Bereznikovskii Affiliate of the All-Union, Aluminum-Magnesium Research Inst., USSR
NSA Number:
NSA-16-030388
OSTI ID:
4769920
Journal Information:
Doklady Akad. Nauk, S.S.S.R., Journal Name: Doklady Akad. Nauk, S.S.S.R. Vol. Vol: 145
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
Russian

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