The Clustering of Ions and the Mobilities in Gaseous Mixtures

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It is shown by direct analysis that the deviations from Blanc's law for mobilities of ions in mixtures of gases observed when a strongly polarizable gas is mixed with one less polarizable cannot be ascribed to a statistical clustering effect as proposed by Loeb. Analysis involving the assumption that the ion undergoes labile clustering of the simplest type indicates that the observed results can be completely accounted for within the realms of simple theory. Thus assuming that the active gas can attach a single molecule to the ion and that this attachment molecule may be detached with different probabilities by collisions with the two types of gas molecules leads to an equation for the resultant mobilities which will cover practically all cases observed. The forces assumed can be dielectric but may also be secondary valence or van der Waals' forces. It is indicated how, with appropriate experimental procedures possible under modern techniques, most of the constants required for the solution of the equation can be directly determined or computed.

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