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Ageing of water or dissolution of glass: an electrical conductivity study
Abstract:
Water and water based solutions are often stored in glass vessels. There are many studies in the literature dealing with solubility of glass-strictly speaking leaching of its components-in water. In present work the leaching process was investigated by measuring the electrical resistance/conductivity of water in a gas tight closed cell under nitrogen atmosphere during three weeks in the temperature range from 5 °C to 40 °C. From obtained results it was concluded, that the observed increase in electrical conductivity of water-actually extremely diluted solution of ions released form glass - in the used time period, can be ascribed to the leaching of ions from the glass solely.
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