In part 1 of this series (ref 1) we presented a qualitative thermodynamic description of the phase behavior of quaternary mixtures of water, nonpolar solvents, nonionic amphiphiles, and salts.The phase behavior of such mixtures follows general patterns that are essentially determined by the phase diagrams of the corresponding binary and ternary mixtures.In this paper (part 2) the nonionic amphiphiles are replaced by ionic amphiphiles.The general patterns of these mixtures, in particular the phase sequence with rising temperature, are inverse to those with nonionic amphiphiles?It is shown that this inverse behavior originates from the difference between the phase diagrams of binary H20-nonionic amphiphile and those of H20-ionic amphiphile mixtures.and to
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Kahlweit et al. (1989) studied this question.