EVALUATION OF ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS OF AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF SODIUM CHLORIDE AND POTASSIUM CHLORIDE USING ULTRASONIC WAVES

S. Sasikumar, G. Meenakshi

Abstract: The study of behaviour of propagation of ultrasonic waves in liquid system and solids is now rather well established as an effective means for examining certain physical properties of the materials. It is particularly well adapted to examine changes in such physical properties while they occur. The data obtained from ultrasonic propagation parameters such as ultrasonic velocity, adiabatic compressibility, molar volume, free length etc; and their variation with concentration of one of the component of the medium are useful in understanding the nature of molecular interaction in terms of physical parameters owing to the sensitivity to very low population densities at high energy states ultrasonic methods have been preferred and are reported to be complementary to other techniques like dielectric relaxation, I.R spectroscopy, N.M.R etc. Hence the author preferred to study the ultrasonic velocity and density measurement of aqueous solutions for NaCl and KCl of various concentrations. One of the important intermolecular properties of a liquid is the free length Lf between the surfaces of two neighbouring molecules and in the distance covered by the propagating acoustic waves between the surfaces of the two neighbouring molecules. The non-linear variations are observed in acoustic parameters of NaCl and KCl solutions indicating the formation of complex ions. Molecular interactions can be studied through Rao’s constants and Wada’s constants which are constants in non interacting systems. The abrupt change observed in Rao’s constant and Wada’s constant shows existence of molecular interaction

Keywords: Molecular interaction, Intermolecular length, Rao’s constant (R), Wada’s constant (B)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0402035