The ‘salting out’ effect: investigating the influence of both the nature and concentration of salt on the partition coefficient of butan-1,4-dioic acid

By John McCullagh

Issue 368 | Page 77 | Published Mar 2018

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This activity describes how students can use acid–base titrimetry to investigate how adding salt to the aqueous phase may change the value of the partition coefficient of an organic acid.

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