Potentiometric investigations of carbonate ion stability in molten cesium and sodium iodides.

The reaction of carbonate ion dissociation in molten CsI and NaI was studied in the temperature range from the melting point to 800 (CsI) and 830 degrees C (NaI) by a potentiometric method with the use of a membrane oxygen electrode as an indicator one. The dissociation constant of CO(3)(2-) in the molten iodides was found to increase with the temperature. pK values for CsI are 4.