Tracer diffusion in aqueous sucrose and urea solutions
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 68 (9) , 1611-1615
- https://doi.org/10.1139/v90-248
Abstract
Tracer diffusion coefficients for water (as HTO), methanol (14CH3OH), and acetonitrile (CT3CN) in aqueous sucrose (10–25% w/w) and urea (0.25–4 mol L−1) solutions at 298 K have been determined using the diaphragm cell technique. For sucrose solutions tracer diffusion coefficients vary with the 2/3 power of the relative viscosity and the viscosity dependence is the same for the above tracers as for sucrose and oxygen. In urea solutions tracer diffusion coefficients appear to have a solute-specific viscosity dependence, but the solute specificity is largely removed when the effects of proton exchange and urea dimerisation are considered. Keywords: diffusion, water, methanol, acetonitrile, sucrose, urea.Keywords
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