Complex-ions in molten salts. Iodo- and cyano- complexed of silver in molten LiCl + KCl (59 : 41 mole %)

Abstract

The deviations from ideality which occur when alkali metal iodides and cyanides are added to solutions of silver chloride in the molten solvent lithium chloride + potassium chloride have been determined potentiometrically. They have been interpreted quantitatively in terms of the stability constants of complex ions. The K₁ values are compatible with the predictions of the quasi-lattice theory. The results have also been compared with the results of similar investigations in molten nitrate solvents, on the basis of a reciprocal coulomb effect.