“…9,10,12,17 When periodic precipitation is carried out in a chemically inert hydrogel medium, especially with a high polymer concentration, the effect is exerted by the viscosity and density of this medium, leading to a slower mass transfer process and, accordingly, a decreased diffusion coefficient of the reactants, although not very significant. The decimal order of magnitude of the diffusion coefficient of carbonates, acetates, nitrates, chromates, and chlorides in the precipitation reaction in the agar-agar, gelatin, or silica medium is within 10 −10 −10 −9 m 2 / s. 3,16 These values are almost three orders of magnitude higher than the characteristic values of the diffusion coefficient of spherical colloidal particles, low-molecular-weight substances in a polymer matrix, and macromolecules in solution. For example, the order of the diffusion coefficient of water in the solid phase of chitosan of its basic and salt forms is 10 −12 − 10 −11 and 10 −13 −10 −12 m 2 /s, respectively, 18,19 and that of (self) diffusion of chitosan macromolecules in CH 3 COOH and HCl without and with the addition of CH 3 COONa, NaCl, and KCl is 10 −11 −10 −10 m 2 /s.…”