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Powell1 and Baker and Finn2 have considered the effect of the slow hydrolysis of carbon dioxide on the stability of hypochlorite aerosols. The work of McBain3 is quoted when in fact much subsequent work of greater accuracy has appeared ; a summary of this work has recently been published4. In a series of experiments involving the accurate use of a difficult technique, Faurholt5 measured the actual magnitudes of the rate constants for the reactions of carbon dioxide with water and hydroxide ion. The reaction with hydroxide ion is much the more rapid. The velocity of hydration in a given aqueous solution is thus a function of the pH, and can be calculated by summing the contributions to the rate by water molecules and hydroxide ions. In addition, the reaction is catalysed by bases and will be accelerated by anions of weak acids6.
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Baker and Finn, NATURE, 146, 747 (1940).
McBain, J. Chem. Soc., 101, 814 (1912).
Olson and Youle, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 62, 1027 (1940).
Faurholt, J. chim. phys., 21, 400 (1924).
Roughton and Booth, Biochem. J., 32, 2049 (1938).
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YOULE, P. Hydration of Carbon Dioxide and the Stability of Hypochlorite Aerosols. Nature 147, 59 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147059b0
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