The effect of chlorides including KCl, NaCl, LiCl, CaCl
2 and MgCl
2 on the extraction of Cu
2+ with Versatic Acid 10 was studied to elucidate the salting-out effect due to the addition of chlorides to an aqueous phase.
The extracted species of Cu
2+ with Versatic Acid 10 from aqueous chloride solutions were found to be the same with those extracted from perchlorate solutions. The extraction curves of Cu
2+ from KCl solution of pH 4.0 represented in a form of log
D-log
aCl- plots show a simple decreasing tendency of
D values with the increase in
aCl-values. This indicates that the masking effect due to the formation of Cu(II) chloro-complexes is a main factor for a decrease of the extraction. On the other hand, the values of log
D for the extraction of Cu
2+ from other chloride solutions except KCl exhibit an increasing tendency at the higher range of log
aCl- than −0.75. The increasing tendency for the Cu
2+ extraction from LiCl, CaCl
2 or MgCl
2 solutions was found to be of the same order, while the tendency from NaCl solution was slightly weaker compared with that from the former three chlorides.
It was observed that a mutual relation existed between log
K2,1 and log
hMClnCMCln. The finding that the extraction of Cu
2+ is directly determined by the amount of hydrated water with added chloride, suggests an importaut role of the amount of free water in the extraction of Cu
2+ with Versatic Acid 10.
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