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Kinetics and mechanism of the reaction of aluminium in aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide

M. Miadoková and M. Molnárová-Plchová

Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Komenský University, CS-842 15 Bratislava

Abstract: The kinetics of the reaction of spectrally pure aluminium in aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is governed in the investigated reaction regime by the experimental kinetic equation v = kc_OH-c_o2^0.5. The rate-determining step and depolarization processes involving the reduction of protons and oxygen have been ascertained on the basis of the postulated mechanism.

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Chemical Papers 39 (2) 229–235 (1985)