As a step to explicate the spinning mechanism of viscose rayon, the dehydrating power of aqueous inorganic electrolyte solution containing sulphuric acid was studied.
The amount of hydration of electrolytes in solution was determined by the ultrasonic velocity using the interferometer previously described. For Na
2SO
4 solutions containing H
2SO
4 or HCl, an anomalous phenomenon was observed in sonic velocity -concentration relationship when molar concentration of Na
2SO
4 was lower than that of the acids. However such an anomaly was not observed for NaCl solutions containing these acids.
The dehydrating power was calculated assuming that the amount of hydration could be obtained by Wada's formula when molar concentration of Na
2SO
4 is higher than that of H
2SO
4. The results show that dehydration power of aqueous Na
2SO
4 solution is reduced by the presence of H
2SO
4, but those of NaCl or NaNO
3 solutions are not altered by H
2SO
4.
The dehydration index defined for the electrolyte solutions by the above investigation was linearly correlated with the coagulation index for partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinyl pyrrolidone solutions.
From this and previous study, we conclude that the following four factors should be considered in understanding the viscose coagulation in the bath containing H
2SO
4 and Na
2SO
4.
a) Suppression of H
+ by Na
2SO
4.
b) Suppression of diffusion of H
2SO
4 into viscose by Na
2SO
4.
c) Osmotic dehydration.
d) Decrease of dehydrating power of Na2
SO
4 by H
+
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