In
this work, we have made some thermodynamic investigations about
the NaNO3–Cd(NO3)2–H2O ternary system. The potential difference method of the battery
cell, Na–ISE|NaNO3 (m
1), Cd(NO3)2 (m
2)|NO3–ISE, was used to study the activity coefficients
in this mixed system at
298.15 K in the total ionic strengths range 0.0100–1.0000 mol·kg–1 with different ionic strength fractions y
b of Cd(NO3)2 with y
b = (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8). There was a good Nernst
response between Na–ISE and NO3–ISE in this
work, and the mean activity coefficients of NaNO3 can be
interpreted well by the Pitzer models. Furthermore, the mixing Pitzer
ion interaction parameters of θ
Na,Cd
and ψ
Na,Cd,NO
3
were
fitted from Pitzer’s equation, and the two parameters were
applied to compute the values of the mean activity coefficients of
Cd(NO3)2, the osmotic coefficients, the solvent
activity, and the excess Gibbs free energy in this mixed system.