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Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 1 Section A(iii) 5 iii Solution by
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In the high-surface-potential Schulze-Hardy rule, the critical coagulation concentration scales approximately as with the counterion valence. HenceThe more highly charged counterion therefore requires about eleven times less concentration in this idealized estimate. This assumes the cations are the counterions of a negatively charged surface, the surface-potential regime is appropriate, and the only changing mechanism is electrostatic stabilization. Specific adsorption and hydrolysis of aluminium ions can invalidate this scaling; matching ionic strengths instead is not the same prediction.
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