TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEMS INVOLVING COMPOUND FORMATION

Abstract

The two-component systems ethyl ether-hydrogen chloride and methyl alcohol-hydrogen chloride have been examined in the gaseous state, and from the pressure-volume-temperature relationship of the binary mixture evidence is adduced of the existence of compound formation. The heats of reaction appear to be constant in the temperature range investigated, and are 5400 calories for the ether hydrochloride, and 9200 calories for the alcohol hydrochloride. The pressure-volume-temperature data for ethyl ether, methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol are given over the temperature range 50–200 °C., and over the pressure range below one atmosphere.