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Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / Paper 1 / Section B / 10 / iv / c / Solution by

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0.10 M

formula-unit concentration of fully dissociated

AlC l_{3}

gives

0.10 M

trivalent cations and

0.30 M

I = \frac{1}{2} [0.10 (3)^{2} + 0.30 (1)^{2}] = 0.60 M .

At unchanged temperature and permittivity, the Debye–Hückel screening length scales as

I^{- 1/2}

, giving $κ^{- 1} = 0.96/ 6 ≃ 0.39 nm$ . It falls by a factor

6

, not by three. This is a formal screening estimate: at this ionic strength, trivalent-ion activity, finite ion size, hydrolysis and specific adsorption make the ideal dilute model quantitatively limited.

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