Ammonia ions, decomposition

Cadmium sulfide films were deposited on substrates in basic cadmium nitrate solutions with cadmium complexed by excess ammonia. Slow decomposition of thiourea was used to generate the sulfide ion. Some initial studies of film growth on derivatized polyethylene suggested a dependence of film density surface on... 

Figure C2.12.2. Fonnation of Br0nsted acid sites in zeolites. Aqueous exchange of cation M witli an ammonium salt yields tlie ammonium fonn of tlie zeolite. Upon tliennal decomposition ammonia is released and tire proton remains as charge-balancing species. Direct ion-exchange of M witli acidic solutions is feasible for high-silica zeolites.

Other methods exist for the precipitation of tantalum and niobium hydroxides for subsequent use as oxide precursors. Application of ammonium carbonate, (NH4)2C03, instead of ammonia solution, also seems to have potential for the precipitation of tantalum and niobium hydroxides. Ammonium carbonate is relatively stable in aqueous media at room temperature and does not initiate the precipitation of hydroxides. Increasing the temperature of the solution causes hydrolysis and decomposition of ammonium carbonate yielding hydroxyl ions and an increase in pH, as follows ... 

This explains the increase in the induction period which is apparent after exposure of the salt to ammonia, and the decrease in the induction period found for samples which contain traces of HCIO4, identified as the unstable species [59,925]. In the low temperature range, the presence of an outer layer of adsorbed NH3 and/or NH4 ions suppresses the formation of HC104 and, in consequence, the decomposition reaction. 

Other studies conducted on mixed protonated clusters of ammonia bound with TMA showed that the ion intensity distributions of (NH3)n(TMA)mH+191 display local maxima at (n,m) = (1,4), (2,3), (2,6), (3,2), and (3,8). Observation that the maximum ion intensity occurs at (n,m) = (1,4), (2,3), and (3,2) indicates that a solvation shell is formed around the NHJ ion with four ligands of any combination of ammonia and TMA molecules. In the situation where the maximum of the ion intensity occurs at (n,m) = (2,6) and (3,8), the experimental results suggest that another solvation shell forms which contains the core ions [H3N-H-NH3]+ (with six available hydrogen-bonding sites) and [H3N-H(NH2)H-NH3]+ (with eight available hydrogen-bonding sites). The observed metastable unimolecular decomposition processes support the above solvation model. 

Chlorinated waters are being discharged to estuaries and coastal waters in increasing quantities. In such systems the chlorine reacts with the natural bromide and ammonia at pH 8 to produce the highly toxic hypobromous acid, hypobromite ion, and haloamines. For normal seawater of pH 8, the initial products of chlorination are a mixture of hypobromous acid and the hypobromite ion. Both of these compounds are unstable with respect to decomposition and disproportionation. 

The current state-of-the-art CBD process for CdS consists of cadmium ions, thiourea, and ammonia. The deposition of a uniform CBD CdS thin film occurs because of a chemical reaction of controlled sulfur and cadmium ions in the alkaline solution. The slow release of sulfur from thiourea via decomposition and slow release of Cd2+ ions from CdfNI I3)2 allow the following chemical reactions ... 

Phthalic anhydride initially reacts with ammonia, which in turn is liberated, for instance, by decomposition of urea. Diiminophthalimide is then produced via phthalimide and monoiminophthalimide. Subsequent self-condensation (as in the phthalonitrile process) under cleavage of ammonia affords polyisoindolenines, which form complexes with copper ions. Ring closure is achieved through further release of ammonia, and copper phthalocyanine is finally obtained by reduction. 

Tissue electrodes [2, 3, 4, 5, 45,57], In these biosensors, a thin layer of tissue is attached to the internal sensor. The enzymic reactions taking place in the tissue liberate products sensed by the internal sensor. In the glutamine electrode [5, 45], a thick layer (about 0.05 mm) of porcine liver is used and in the adenosine-5 -monophosphate electrode [4], a layer of rabbit muscle tissue. In both cases, the ammonia gas probe is the indicator electrode. Various types of enzyme, bacterial and tissue electrodes were compared [2]. In an adenosine electrode a mixture of cells obtained from the outer (mucosal) side of a mouse small intestine was used [3j. The stability of all these electrodes increases in the presence of sodium azide in the solution that prevents bacterial decomposition of the tissue. In an electrode specific for the antidiuretic hormone [57], toad bladder is placed over the membrane of a sodium-sensitive glass electrode. In the presence of the antidiuretic hormone, sodium ions are transported through the bladder and the sodium electrode response depends on the hormone concentration. 

Aqueous solutions of ammonium sulfate and ammonium bisulfate were deposited on Fluoropore filters, placed in the direct insertion probe, and analyzed in the chemical ionization mode (H2O reagent) gas. The samples were heated from 100°C to 330 C at 15 C/minute. No sample ions were observed under these anlaysis conditions, even when several micrograms of ammonium salts were analyzed. The thermal decomposition of ammonium salts of sulfate has been the subject of many studies. (29,30) Some pathways include sulfuric acid production at one stage of the decomposition while others suggest ammonia, SO2 and SO3 are the products. None of these accurately simulate the conditions (temperature, pressure, gas flow) present in our chemical ionization source. However, no sulfuric acid ions (H3SO4+, etc.) were ob-served... 

The effect of temperature on ammonia adsorption by ZSM5 samples has been investigated by microcalorimetry, varying the adsorption temperature from 150 to 400°C [235]. The initial heats of adsorption were independent of temperature up to 300°C. When the adsorption temperature increased, there was a competition between the formation of ammonium ions on Brpnsted sites and their decomposition. The total number of titrated sites decreased with increasing adsorption temperature. It appeared that an adsorption temperature between 150 and 300°C is appropriate for these calorimetric experiments. 

Elemental composition H 11.83%, N 41.11%, S 47.05%. It may be analyzed by measuring its decomposition gaseous products, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, either by gas chromatography using an FID or a TCD or by selective ion electrode or colorimetric techniques. 

They therefore concluded that several different rate-determining steps were involved in the deposition. Figure 3.6 shows the dependence of the deposition rate on the concentration of the reactants (Cd, thiourea, ammonia, and pH—the last varied through introduction of ammonium ion) (a) as well as an Arrhenius plot of the deposition (b) for the CdS deposition. From the kinetic data, they deduced the hydroxide-complex-decomposition mechanism, given earlier in Eqs. (3.50) and (3.51) and, more specifically, as... 

This, together with the known tendency of metal ions to form mixed hydroxy-am-mine complexes, snggested to them that two ammonia molecnles were involved in the first step and that the adsorbed species in Reaction (3.58) was a hy-droxy-ammine species, viz. Cd(OH)2(NH3)2. Decomposition of the hydroxide-ammine-thiourea complex was then assumed to occur by nucleophilic attack of an ammonia species on the S=C bond of the thiourea. 

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