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AC Electrokinetic Phenomena Generated by Microelectrode Structures
Published on: July 28, 2008
Effect of dissolved salt on the anomalies of water at negative pressure
Alberto Zaragoza1, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi2, Miguel A Gonzalez3
1Departamento Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Adding salt to water at ambient pressure affects its thermodynamic properties. At low salt concentration, anomalies such as the density maximum are shifted to lower temperature, while at large enough salt concentration, they cannot be observed any more. Here, we investigate the effect of salt on an anomaly recently observed in pure water at negative pressure: the existence of a sound velocity minimum along isochores. We compare experiments and simulations for an aqueous solution of sodium chloride with molality around 1.2 mol kg-1, reaching pressures beyond -100 MPa. We also discuss the origin of the minima in the sound velocity and emphasize the importance of the relative position of the temperatures of sound velocity and density anomalies.
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