Transport in aqueous solutions of Group IIB metal salts. Part 7.—Measurement and prediction of isotopic diffusion coefficients for iodide in solutions of cadmium iodide

Abstract

Isotopic diffusion coefficients for iodide have been measured in aqueous solutions of cadmium iodide over the concentration range 0.1–1.0 mol dm^–3, using the diaphragm cell technique. The iodide diffusion coefficients are shown to decrease smoothly but steeply from the infinite dilution value of 2.046 × 10^–5 cm² s^–1 to less than half that value in the concentration range above 0.1 mol dm^–3. This remarkable decline has been assigned to the presence of complexes of the type CdI^+2–x_x(x= 1, 2, 3, 4). The irreversible thermodynamic analysis developed previously for cadmium diffusion in this same system (part 4) has been extended to include isotopic diffusion of labelled ligands on multiply substituted complexes. Using this analysis the observed iodide diffusion coefficients have been predicted within close limits over the whole concentration range up to ≈ 0.5 mol dm^–3.