The dissolution reaction of ZnS in the aqueous solution of sulfuric acid was separated into the following types; the H
2S evolution type, the SO
42+ production type and the S
° production type. The third type, a useful reaction for hydrometallurgy, was accelerated by the addition of CuS to ZnS. In this experiment, the outer polarization curves of various electrodes and the inner polarization curves on dissolution of ZnS were measured to clarify its reaction mechanism. The experimental results obtained are as follows:
(1) The dissolution of ZnS was dependent upon the potential of the specimen and occurred anodically.
(2) The better the contact of mixture ZnS and CuS, etc. and the lower pH of the region in which H
2S did not evolve, the larger became this dissolution current.
(3) At the area contacted with CuS, PbO
2 and graphite added, ZnS was dissolved by the anodic reaction, ZnS=Zn
2++S
°+2
e. As the cathodic reaction, the reduction of the dissolved oxygen, 2H
++1/2 O
2+2
e=H
2O, occurred on the other area of their surface. In the case of CuS and graphite additions, the dissolution reaction of ZnS was considered as the anode control reaction, and in the case of PbO
2 addition, the mixed costrol.
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