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A platinum-lined, flowing autoclave facility was used to investigate the solubility/phase behavior of nickel oxide (NiO) in aqueous sodium phosphate solutions between 290 and 560 K. A layer of hydrous nickel oxide was concluded to exist on the nickel oxide surface below 468 K; only at higher temperatures did the anhydrous nickel oxide phase control the nickel ion solubility behavior. The measured solubility behavior was examined via a nickel(II) ion hydrolysis/complexing model and thermodynamic functions for the hydrolysis/complexing reaction equilibria were obtained from a least-squares analysis of the data. The existence of two new nickel ion complexes are reported for the first time: Ni(OH)2(HPO4)= and Ni(OH)3(H2PO4)=. The positive entropy change associated with the formation of Ni(OH)3(H2PO4)= leads to its dominance in alkaline phosphate solutions at elevated temperatures.
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ziemniak, S.E., Jones, M.E. & Combs, K.E.S. Solubility and phase behavior of nickel oxide in aqueous sodium phosphate solutions at elevated temperatures. J Solution Chem 18, 1133–1152 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00647269
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