A comparison between the solubility of NaCl and LiCl in different water/methanol mixtures is shown in Fig. 6.16. A higher solubility was reported over the entire concentration range of water/methanol mixtures for LiCl than for NaCl by Pinho and Macedo as well as by Li et al. [29, 30]. However, the solubility of LiCl as well as the solubility of NaCl decreases with increasing methanol amount.
Fig. 6.16: Solubility of NaCl and LiCl at 298 K dissolved in different water/methanol mixtures adapted [29, 30] from
The influence of different methanol/water mixtures was shown above for NaCl and for LiCl as well as for CaCl2 in Fig. 6.17. Fig. 6.17 shows the significant difference of conductivity between dissolving the investigated salts in water or in methanol. A higher conductivity was measured using water as solvent than methanol. So the lowest conductivity was measured for CaCl2 dissolved in methanol while the highest conductivity was observed for LiCl dissolved in water (see also Fig. 6.2). A decrease of conductivity could be measured using LiCl or CaCl2 with increasing methanol content like it is describe above for NaCl. Again the conductivity remains almost constant up to 50 wt.-% methanol.
Fig. 6.17: Measured conductivity of, LiCl and CaCl2 in various water/methanol mixtures using different salt
concentrations
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