This paper is concerned with the comparison of chemical reactivities of β-Ca
3(PO
4)
2(TCP) and α-TCP in solid-liquid reaction. A dilute aqueous solution comprising Ca(H
2PO
4)
2, Ba(H
2PO
4)
2 or NH
4H
2PO
4 was used as a liquid reactant. For comparison, Ba
3(PO
4)
2 was also used as a solid reactant. The solid-liquid reaction process to precipitate monohydrogen phosphate, CaHPO
4⋅2H
2O(DCPD) or BaHPO
4, was followed mainly by simultaneous measurement of heat flow and electric conductivity at 25°C. Variation of concentration for the filtrate was also measured by chemical analysis. The reaction process was discussed both in terms of dissolution-precipitation mechanism and charge leveling process between PO
43- and HPO
4- anions, which is accompanied by an increase of electric conductivity. It was found that β-TCP does not appreciably react with Ca(H
2PO
4)
2(aq) or NH
4H
2PO
4(aq), whereas DCPD precipitates readily upon addition of α-TCP in the solution, accompanying heat evolution and decrease in electric conductivity. Minute quantities of BaHPO
4 derived from the mother liquid precipitate through the reaction between β-TCP and Ba(H
2PO
4)
2(aq), but three kinds of products, BaHPO
4, an unknown phase and DCPD, precipitate successively for α-TCP with the same solution. The charge balance process was confirmed by a slight increase in electric conductivity upon the addition of α-TCP in NH
4H
2PO
4 solution, which is followed by the precipitation of DCPD with heat evolution. The higher reactivity of the α-TCP is assumed to be related to a non-uniform electron distribution around PO
43- ions, which are much more subject to proton transfer from H
2PO
4- ions to convert HPO
42- ions.
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