Abstract

AbstractBi‐ionic and multi‐ionic potentials across parchment‐supported mercuric sulfide membrane with various combinations of 1:1 electrlytes at different concentrations were measured. Membrane conductivity in contact with a single electrolyte was experimentally determined to evaluate selectivity of the membrane with the predetermined values of intramembrane mobility ratio. The selectivity sequence of the membrane was K+>Na+>Li+, which on the basis of the Eisenman–Sherry model of membrane selectivity, points toward the weak field strength of the charge groups attached to the membrane matrix. The permeability ratio of ions within the membrane was also evaluated by use of the equation based on the macroscopic linear laws of nonequilibrium thermodynamics derived by Sandblom and Eisenman. Three different methods of various integrated forms of the Nernst‐Plank flux equation were used to derive the potentiometric selectivity constant Kijpot of the membrane. These values were close to one another.

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