M-W curve, obtained by varying concentrations of sodium hydroxide solution in emulsion xanthation of pulp, may be influenced by some characteristics of pulp, such as distribution of cellulose chain length, morphological and fine structure, etc. In this paper, the relation between M-W curve and the fine structure was studied.
The curve can be characterized by its position and shape. The concentration of sodium hydroxide solution, in which half of pulp goes into solution, was adopted for expression of the position of the curve, and is symbolized with [
C]
0. To express the shape of the curve, we adopted the parameter (
n0) obtained by the procedure, which was proposed by H. Takenaka for representaion of the distribution curves of degree of polymerization of high polymers and was modified by us. In this paper the parameter (
n0) means mainly the slope of the curve.
The relations between the fine structure of pulp and (
n0) and [
C]
0, are as follows;
(1) The slope (
n0) of M-W curve decreases with increasing the ununiformity of lateral order distribution and the amount of low ordered region (Fig. 9, 12).
(2) If the average lateral order level [
C]
H becomes lower, the position of M-W curve tends to move toward the lower sodium hydorxide concentation range, namely [
C]
0 decreases (Fig. 1). However the position of M-W curve [
C]
0 is not only controlled by the average lateral order level [
C]
H, but also by the distribution of lateral order, especially the relation between the specific surface area and the lateral order level of pulp.
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