Isopiestic determination of the osmotic and activity coefficients of ZnSO4(aq) at T=298.15 K, and the standard potential of the electrochemical cell ZnHgx(two phase)vertical bar ZnSO4(aq)vertical bar PbSO4(s)vertical bar PbHgx(two phase)
Jg. Albright et al., Isopiestic determination of the osmotic and activity coefficients of ZnSO4(aq) at T=298.15 K, and the standard potential of the electrochemical cell ZnHgx(two phase)vertical bar ZnSO4(aq)vertical bar PbSO4(s)vertical bar PbHgx(two phase), J CHEM THER, 32(11), 2000, pp. 1447-1487
Isopiestic vapor-pressure measurements were made for ZnSO4(aq) at T = 298.1
5 K, both at Texas Christian University and at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, from molality m = 0.1004 mol . kg(-1) to the supersaturated m =
4.3092 mol . kg(-1), and included solubility determinations. These results
were combined with critically assessed e.m.f. results from m = 6.7 . 10(-4
) to m = 3.4413 mol . kg(-1) to yield recommended values of the osmotic coe
fficients, water activities, and mean activity coefficients of ZnSO4(aq), a
long with the thermodynamic solubility product and a CODATA compatible valu
e for the Gibbs free energy of formation of goslarite: K-s{ZnSO4 . 7H(2)O(c
r, orthorhombic)} = (0.01119 +/- 0.00033) and Delta (f)G(m)(o),(ZnSO4 . 7H(
2)O, cr, orthorhombic, 298.15 K) = -(2562.32 +/- 0.57) kJ . mol(-1). An equ
ation of the type used by Pitzer and Mayorga (J. Solution Chem. 1974, 3, 53
9-546) accurately represents the experimental osmotic coefficients and e.m.
f.s provided it is modified by making the third virial coefficient ionic-st
rength dependent and by adding a fourth virial term. However, the mean acti
vity coefficients of ZnSO4(aq) undergo a change from negative deviations fr
om the Debye-Huckel limiting law below m similar to 0.01 mol . kg(-1) to po
sitive deviations at higher molalities as described by Malatesta and Zambon
i (J. Solution Chem. 1997, 26, 791-815), and our recommended values were ad
justed for this effect. The standard potential of the reversible electroche
mical cell:
ZnHgx(two phase)\ZnSO4(aq)\PbSO4(cr)\PbHgx(two phase)
was evaluated, and the resulting value was used for evaluating the standard
potentials of the PbSO4(cr)\PbHgx(two phase) and Hg2SO4(cr)\Hg(1) electrod
es. (C) 2000 Academic Press.