Detecting Binary Solid-Phase Interactions in Ternary Ion-Exchange Data (Methods in Modeling Ion-Exchange Selectivity, #1)

Many modelers of ion-exchange thermodynamics have assumed that the selectivity of two ions within a ternary system could be modeled from data gained from the associated binary systems. The heart of this assumption is that the third ion has no synergistic interactions with the other ions in the solid phase, but rather influences the exchange solely by diluting the concentration of other ions on the solid. Here, a method to detect synergism between solid-phase ions is reported. The method de...