Study of natural glasses through their behavior as membrane electrodes, Part 2

Open-File Report 62-136
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Abstract

The exchange constants and regular solution constants for a number of exchange reactions involving analyzed natural and simulated natural glasses have been determined. The experimental method used provides quick and simple determination of these constants. The calculation of the internal energy differences of model ion exchange systems involving alkali and alkaline earth cations yields sequences (but not magnitudes) of selectivity that agree with the experimental results. Complex glasses such as obsidians, tektites and basaltic glasses do not in general show simple correlations between composition and ion exchange behavior.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Study of natural glasses through their behavior as membrane electrodes, Part 2
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 62-136
DOI 10.3133/ofr62136
Year Published 1962
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 43 p.
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