The oxidewater interface: How valid is the site dissociationsurface equilibria model

Abstract

The great Dutch school of colloid science of Kruyt, Overbeek, and others developed theoretical and experimental models of the silver halidewater interface. Potentiometric titrations, electrokinetic measurements, and coagulation kinetics set high standards of experimentation. They, further, led to the development of theoretical models, mostly thermodynamic, of the silver halideaqueous electrolyte interface, which allowed quantitative understanding of experimental results. The fundamental step was to recognize that silver and halide ions, as potential-determining ions, controlled the Nernst potential of the interface. At ca. 25 °C, as the concentration of silver ions in the bulk solution chang..