We investigated the effect of electrolyte NaCl, (C4H9) 4NCl on the CMC of sodium dodecyl sulfate.Two solutions were separated from each other by semipermeable membranes and a vessel of pure water. It turned out that the CMC is significantly reduced. Electrolyte affects the CMC through water at a great distance. The surface tension of the surfactant solution was measured rapidly. Therefore, the effect of partial passage of electrolyte through water can be neglected.. Can this phenomenon be explained by the entanglement of the quantum states of water?
I asked three question about the qubit/micelle, collapse (decoherence) of the qubit, quantum transition in aqueous surfactant solution. The question appeared after our research and are useful for discussion by expert. Now i asked the fourth question.
Dear Yuri,
did you considered the effect of dodecanol (product of hydrolysis) on surface tension measurement? I remember that at the early 1980 I got several peculiar results, e.g. after shaking SDS solution in a funnel considerable lower surface tension in top layer as for solution released at bottom. Dilatation / compression of air/liquid interface leads to enrichment of more surface active dodecanol. It seems advisable to use a second method for cmc determination based on changes in volume.
@Titus Sobisch. I know article on the hydrolysis SDS:
Can. J. Chem. Eng.1980.58. 485
Hydrolysis slow. We measured the surface tension quickly. In addition measured the surface tension after filling in the cell of electrolyte solution. We looked at the effect of the electrolyte.
the problem is that adsorption of dodecanol is much faster than that of SDS. Therefore even very small amount of dodecanol cause peculiar effects. As said you may exclude this effect by using a second method for determination of cmc, which is based on change of volume properties instead of surface properties. After all measurement of surface tension is a very indirect way to measure phenomena in bulk like micellization.
Dear Titus. Thank You. I have been studying surfactant for 50 years. I know all this. My question is about entanglement.
@Titus Sobisch. Look at how I overcame the problems you pointed out in my preprint Quantum entanglement in micellar solutions of ionic surfactants.
Regards.
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