The anodic dissolution of copper in acidic chloride media was studied at a rotating disk electrode by the linear potential sweep method. The potential range from the rest potential to +400 mV vs. SCE, including a limiting current region, was investigated. Twenty different solutions of various chloride ion concentrations from 0.2 to 4M and various [K +] to [H +] ratios were tested. The observed anodic limiting current density was proportional to the square root of the rotation rate. A model, which assumes the formation of a CuCI film on the copper surface and diffusion of the chloride ions to the electrode as the rate-determining step, has been developed to interpret the experimental data. Complexation constants, K2 and K3 are calculated as 6.67 • 104 and 1.81 • 10~, respectively, and K3/K2 ~ 2.67. These results lead to the conclusion that in solutions with [CI-] ( 0.7M the complex, CuCI2-, is dominant, while at more concentrated chloride solutions, CuCla 2-is the main complex formed. For [C1-] ( 0.05M, a considerable amount of the dissolved copper is in the form of Cu 2+. This restricts the proposed mechanism for anodic dissolution of copper to solutions of higher chloride concentrations. The calculations do not preclude the validity of a previously proposed mechanism which suggests that diffusion of the cuprous chloride complex to the bulk of the solution is the rate-determining step.The anodic dissolution of copper in chloride solutions is still not completely understood even though there have been a number of investigations of this * Electrochemical Society Active Member.

The position and movement of poles of the amplitude for elastic -meson scattering off the light nuclei 2 H, 3 H, 3 He, and 4 He are studied. It is found that, within the existing uncertainties for the elementary N interaction, all these nuclei can support a quasibound state. The values of the -nucleus scattering lengths corresponding to the critical N interaction that produces a quasibound state are given. ͓S0556- 2813͑96͒50305-5͔PACS number͑s͒: 25.80. Ϫe, 21.45.ϩv, 25.10.ϩs Since meson factories cannot produce -meson beams, these particles are available for experimental investigations only as products of certain nuclear reactions where they appear as final-state particles. Therefore, final-state interaction effects are the only source of information about the -meson interaction with nucleons. In this connection, -nucleus systems can play an important role in investigating the N dynamics, especially if they can form quasibound states. In this case, the final-state mesons can be trapped for a relatively long time, and thus the properties of the N interaction can be studied.Estimations, obtained in the framework of the optical model approach ͓1,2͔, put a lower bound on the atomic number A for which an -nucleus bound state could exist, namely Aу12. In Ref. ͓3͔, the formation of -nucleus states has been investigated, using the standard Green's function method of many-body problems. There it was found that an 16 O bound state should be possible. Experimentally the cross sections of pion collisions with lithium, carbon, oxygen, and aluminum, however, gave no evidence for the existence of bound states with these nuclei ͓4͔.A new theoretical analysis of the problem ͓5͔ predicted a binding of the meson to 12 C and heavier nuclei, however, with rather large widths. The formation of an 4 He bound state was studied in a more recent work by Wycech et al. ͓6͔, using a modified multiple scattering theory. These authors obtained a comparatively large negative value for the real part of the -nucleus scattering length, which was interpreted as an indication that an -nucleus bound state could exist. We note that previous results of ours, concering the scattering lengths with ligh nulcei ͓7-9͔, showed that the -4 He scattering length can have an even larger ͑negative͒ real part than that of Ref. ͓6͔.In Ref. ͓10͔, a preliminary investigation on the possibility of -meson binding in the d, t, 3 He, and 4 He systems was made within the framework of the finite-rank approximation ͑FRA͒ of the nuclear Hamiltonian ͓11,12͔. The FRA approach treats the motion of the projectile ( meson͒ and of the nucleons inside the nucleus separately. As a result the internal dynamics of the nucleus enters the theory only via the nuclear wave function. In ͓10͔, these wave functions were approximated by simple Gaussian forms, which repro-duce the nuclear sizes only. In the present work, we perform calculations with more realistic nuclear wave functions, obtained via the so-called integro-differential equation approach ͑IDEA͒ ͓13-17͔. We study, in particula...

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The Hartree-Fock method with single-particle wavefunctions adapted in symmetry to the respective regimes, i.e. spherical wavefunctions for dominating Coulomb forces ( beta z=B/(Z24.7010*105 Tesla)or approximately=1), has been employed to determine wavefunctions, energies and oscillator strengths of helium-like atoms for magnetic field strengths in the range 4.7*101 to 4.7*108 T. In addition, the problem of level correspondence between the low-field and high-field domains is solved.