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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Apr 15;44(8):3028–3034. doi: 10.1021/es1001192

Table 1.

Single temperature or unspecified temperature values for KH for HCN

KH, M/atm t, °C pHCN, ppmv Ref Comments
13.3 18 138,000 8 Based on the lowest concentration data in this tabulation
9.3 25 197,000 9 Value extrapolated from above data
8.8–9.6 ? ? 10 Secondary compilation, no sources are cited
7.5 ? ? 11 Stated to be effective constant at pH 4, no sources cited
8.7 25 100 12 Value given in atm/mole fraction, extrapolated to infinite dilution
8.2–8.8 25 100 12,13 As for previous entry, data from (12), interpreted by authors of (13)
8.8 ? 1500 13 As for previous entry, this paper has different values in a table than in text, tabulated values are given here; this result is for a pure cyanide solution
8.4–9.8 ? 2190–4150 13 As for previous entry, results for a cyanide bearing synthetic leaching solution
10.5–11.6 ? 2020–3030 13 As for previous entry, results for a cyanide based actual zinc leaching solution
13.7 ? ? 1 Reference 1 cites this as from ref. 14, we were unable to locate this in ref. 14.
12 25 ? 15 Secondary source, cites Edwards et al. (1978) that contains no primary data
12.2 20 2–40 16 Electronically published MS thesis
12.8 25 318–376 17
9.4 ? ? 18 Review, primary source not given
11.9 30 825 19 As interpreted in (16)
7.6 25 21 20 Static measurement of headspace by GC. Author suggests that static techniques produce lower KH values