Mutual Diffusion of Pairs of Rare Gases at Different Temperatures

Abstract
The coefficient of mutual diffusion of the binary gas mixtures Ne—A, A—Kr, and Ne–Kr has been determined at 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45°C. Diffusion is allowed to take place between two diffusion bulbs through a precision capillary tube and samples of gas are withdrawn from one bulb at different times and analyzed by a differential conductivity analyzer. From the experimentally determined values of the diffusion coefficient at different temperatures the unlike interaction parameters for the above gas pairs have been calculated by two different methods on the Lennard‐Jones 12:6 model. These values of the force parameters are found to be in good agreement with those obtained from the usual combination rules and also from the thermal diffusion data following the method of Srivastava and Madan. These values are found to reproduce the experimental data on mutual diffusion quite satisfactorily. With Kelvin's method, these data have also been utilized to calculate the self‐diffusion coefficient of neon, argon, and krypton.