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Ion Exchange For
Ion Exchange For
A useful resin must be sufficiently hydrophillic to permit diffusion of ions through the structure at a finite
and usable rate.
It must be chemically stable and must contain sufficient number of accessible ion exchangers groups.
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They possess active or counter ions that are easily exchangeable reversibly with other ions in
surrounding solution without any change in material.
Granular resins swell in water to give a gel structure. Swelling is directly proportional to the percentage
of cross linking. Highly cross linked resins are brittle, harder, complex and porous.
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Currently most of the common ion exchange products are built on the styrene divinyl backbone because
of their stability.
These polymers carry an electric charge that is exactly balanced by the charges on the counter ions.
These active ions are cations in cation exchanger and anions in anion exchanger.
Thus an anion exchanger contains polymeric cations and active anions while cation exchanger consists of
polymeric anions and active cations.
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CATION ECHANGERS
They are usually high molecular weight cross linked polymers having sulphonic , carboxylic , phenolic
groups etc with equal amounts of cations.
In cation exchangers hydrogen ions are mobile and are exchangeable with other cations and the anions
remain attracted to resin.
Cation exchange is good for removing metal ions from an aqueous solution.
When a salt solution is passed through cation exchanger , the H+ ions enter the solution and the cations
of the salt get attached to the resin.
Strong cation exchange resins consists of SO2H group and weak cation exchange resins consists of groups
like COOH , OH , SH-
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The functional groups added to the resin is similar to cation resin but are basic instead of acidic.
Consists positively charged groups and attract negatively charged groups. Also called basic ion
exchangers.
They are usually resins consisting amine or quarternary ammonium groups as integral part and equal
amount of Ce, OH , SO43- ions, which are mobile and exchangeable.
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Anion Exchange Resins
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