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In this work turbidimetric and nephelometric techniques have been used to study the homocoagulation of aqueous dispersions of uniform spherical particles of surfactant-free latexes. Cationic and anionic latexes of similar particle sizes (361 and 370 nm) and different surface charge densities (+16.4 and −3.6 µC/cm2) were used throughout. The kinetic constants which control the aggregation processes when the electrical repulsion disappears were estimated by both techniques at different particle concentration and wavelength in order to establish the experimental conditions which provided reliable and similar values for the coagulation rate constant. Both experimental techniques (turbidity and nephelometry) and two ways of fitting the data have been used with both latexes. For the first method, the initial slope of turbidity or total scattered intensity versus time curves were used to calculate the kinetic constants. In the second method, the whole turbidity or total scattered intensity versus time curves were fitted and the kinetic constants calculated. An unambiguous experimental value for the doublet rate constant in diffusion conditions is obtained by turbidity and nephelometry techniques. By nephelometry both data treatments have permitted a distinction between the doublet rate constant and the global rate constant in diffusion conditions.
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de las Nieves, F.J., Maroto, J.A. Estimation of kinetic rate constants by turbidity and nephelometry techniques in a homocoagulation process with different model colloids. Colloid Polym Sci 275, 1148–1155 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050195
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