Migration, Crystallization and Dissolution Changes of Salt Solution with Color Rendering Property in Porous Quartz Materials

Molecules. 2020 Dec 3;25(23):5708. doi: 10.3390/molecules25235708.

Abstract

In order to visually display the migration and crystallization process of salt solution in porous cultural relics, copper sulfate solution with color rendering property was selected to record the migration, crystallization and resolution of salt solution in simulated SiO2 samples under different environmental conditions in real time through high-resolution recording system, scanning electron microscope system, salt phase X-ray diffraction system, and so on. The results showed the migration of salt solution in porous samples was related to the structural characteristics of the porous samples, the migration rate of salt solution, the evaporation rate and the change frequency of crystallization-resolution, etc., in which the large pore size of the sample, the higher the concentration and the faster migration and evaporation rate of salt solution, the greater the change rate of the brine accumulation zone or salt crystallization zone in the different porous samples. During the humidification-drying cycles of rainfall, the higher the cycle frequency of humidification-drying was, the higher the drying temperature was, the more frequent the crystallization-analysis change of salt in the salt-bearing sample was, and the more extensive the distribution of salt crystal zone was. This is the first time to visualize the salt belt by simulating the changing process of a salt solution with a color rendering property in porous samples. This has scientific theoretical guidance for the study of the migration-crystallization changes of soluble salts contained in porous silicate cultural relics. The visibility analysis results of multilayer salt crystal belts can also provide the preliminary basis for further effective desalination of salt bearing cultural relics.

Keywords: color rendering tracing; copper sulfate; crystalline brine accumulation zone; porous cultural relics; salt crystalline zone.

MeSH terms

  • Calorimetry, Differential Scanning / methods
  • Crystallization / methods
  • Porosity
  • Quartz / chemistry*
  • Salts / chemistry
  • Silicon Dioxide / chemistry
  • Sodium Chloride / chemistry*
  • Solubility
  • Solutions / chemistry
  • Temperature
  • X-Ray Diffraction / methods

Substances

  • Salts
  • Solutions
  • brine
  • Quartz
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Silicon Dioxide