Microwave Dielectric Properties of Aqueous Potassium Iodide
Solutions as a Function of Temperature

A. V. Kobeleva, A. S. Lileevb, and A. K. Lyashchenkoa

aKurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Leninskii pr. 31, Moscow, 119991 Russia

b Moscow University of Environmental Engineering, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: sumkin@amik.ru, lilaser@mail.ru, aklyas@mail.ru

Received July 28, 2010

Abstract—The complex dielectric permittivity of aqueous KI solutions was studied for molalities of 0.50–4.01
m
and temperatures of 288–323 K in the region of water dielectric permittivity dispersion. The values of high-
frequency of dielectric permittivity () and dielectric losses ('') were obtained at seven frequencies ranging
between 7.5 and 25 GHz. The low-frequency electrical conductivity of the aforementioned solutions was mea-
sured for calculating ionic losses. A single relaxation process is observed in these solutions, fitted by the Debye
or Cole–Cole equation with small distribution parameters. The static dielectric constant and dielectric relax-
ation time were studied as functions of temperature and concentration; the activation enthalpy of dielectric
relaxation was calculated. The temperature dependence of the static dielectric constant was found to disappear
in highly concentrated solutions. The structure-breaking effect on water caused by K+ and I ions was affirmed,
this effect disappearing in going to elevated temperatures.

DOI: 10.1134/S0036023611040139


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