Periodate, barium

Period 5 (group 3 [IIIB] to group 12 [IIB]) is located in the second row of the transition elements and represents 10 of the transition metals to nonmetals found in the periodical table of chemical elements. This period is also known to include some of the so-called rare-earth elements. Most of the rare-earths are found in the lanthanide series, which follows barium (period 6, group 3). (Check the periodic table to locate the major rare-earth elements in the lanthanide series. These are addressed in a later section of the book.)... 

The solubility rises rapidly above 25°C. and is about ten times as great in water as in concentrated nitric acid. If dry barium periodate is treated with concentrated nitric acid, the barium nitrate is so finely divided that it is difficult to filter and wash. This is avoided by using more dilute acid or by treating the moist salt with concentrated acid. 

One hundred grams of barium periodate is moistened with 75 ml. of water and treated with 200 ml. of colorless nitric acid (sp. gr. 1.42). The mixture is kept at 60 to 70°C. for an hour with frequent stirring, cooled to 30 to 40°C., and the barium nitrate filtered off on a fritted-glass Buchner funnel. It is washed with colorless, concentrated nitric acid until free from periodate, which is best done by thoroughly stirring it with the washing acid. 

As much as 500 g. of barium periodate can easily be carried through this process. 

O 42.11%. Prepd by electrolytic oxidation of iodic add or from barium periodate and nitric acid Willard,... 

Since HglOg is decomposed catalytically by Pt, electrolysis on Pt caimot be used. The procedure described below, usii barium periodate and HNO3, makes use of the fact that Ba(N03)2 is insoluble in concentrated HNO-, while Hr10 is soluble. 

I. 5 to 2 hours with vigorous stirrii, then neutralized with Ba(OH)3 and left to cool. The barium periodate that crystallizes out is repeatedly washed with hot water and the supernatant liquor decanted. It is finally filtered on a Buchner funnel. The yield is about 330 g. however, the product still contains some NaNOg. 

The elements in Group II of the Periodic Table (alkaline earth metals) are. in alphabetical order, barium (Ba). beryllium (Be), calcium (Ca). magnesium (Mg), radium (Ra) and strontium (Sr). 

Perhalates. Whereas silver perchlorate [7783-93-9] AgClO, and silver periodate [15606-77-6] AglO, are well known, silver perbromate [54494-97-2] AgBrO, has more recendy been described (18). Silver perchlorate is prepared from silver oxide and perchloric acid, or by treating silver sulfate with barium perchlorate. Silver perchlorate is one of the few silver salts that is appreciably soluble in organic solvents such as glycerol, toluene, and chlorobenzene. 

Strontium [7440-24-6] Sr, is in Group 2 (IIA) of the Periodic Table, between calcium and barium. These three elements are called alkaline-earth metals because the chemical properties of the oxides fall between the hydroxides of alkaU metals, ie, sodium and potassium, and the oxides of earth metals, ie, magnesium, aluminum, and iron. Strontium was identified in the 1790s (1). The metal was first produced in 1808 in the form of a mercury amalgam. A few grams of the metal was produced in 1860—1861 by electrolysis of strontium chloride [10476-85-4]. 

Barium [7440-39-3] Ba, is a member of Group 2 (IIA) of the periodic table where it Hes between strontium and radium. Along with calcium and strontium, barium is classed as an alkaline earth metal, and is the densest of the three. Barium metal does not occur free in nature however, its compounds occur in small but widely distributed amounts in the earth s cmst, especially in igneous rocks, sandstone, and shale. The principal barium minerals are barytes [13462-86-7] (barium sulfate) and witherite [14941-39-0] (barium carbonate) which is also known as heavy spar. The latter mineral can be readily decomposed via calcination to form barium oxide [1304-28-5] BaO, which is the ore used commercially for the preparation of barium metal. 

Barium is a member of the aLkaline-earth group of elements in Group 2 (IIA) of the period table. Calcium [7440-70-2], Ca, strontium [7440-24-6], Sr, and barium form a closely aUied series in which the chemical and physical properties of the elements and thek compounds vary systematically with increa sing size, the ionic and electropositive nature being greatest for barium (see Calcium AND CALCIUM ALLOYS Calcium compounds Strontium and STRONTIUM compounds). As size increases, hydration tendencies of the crystalline salts increase solubiUties of sulfates, nitrates, chlorides, etc, decrease (except duorides) solubiUties of haUdes in ethanol decrease thermal stabiUties of carbonates, nitrates, and peroxides increase and the rates of reaction of the metals with hydrogen increase. 

Schierholtz and Stevens (1975), Noor and Mersmann (1993) and Chen etal. (1996) determined nucleation rates by integrating the total crystal number formed over a period and related it to an estimate of supersaturation in the precipitation of calcium carbonate, barium carbonate and barium sulphate respectively. 

Aqueous solutions of periodic acid are best made by treating this barium salt with concentrated nitric acid. White crystals of... 

In 1938 Niels Bohr had brought the astounding news from Europe that the radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin had conclusively demonstrated that one of the products of the bom-bardmeiit of uranium by neutrons was barium, with atomic number 56, in the middle of the periodic table of elements. He also announced that in Stockholm Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch had proposed a theory to explain what they called nuclear fission, the splitting of a uranium nucleus under neutron bombardment into two pieces, each with a mass roughly equal to half the mass of the uranium nucleus. The products of Fermi s neutron bombardment of uranium back in Rome had therefore not been transuranic elements, but radioactive isotopes of known elements from the middle of the periodic table. 

Moving down in a column is equivalent in many respects to moving to the left in the periodic table. Since we find basic properties predominant at the left of the periodic table in a row, we can expect to find basic properties increasing toward the bottom of a column. Thus the base strength of the alkaline earth hydroxides is expected to be largest for barium and strontium. The greatest acid strength is expected for beryllium hydroxide. 

On the basis of your knowledge of periodicity, place each of the following sets of elements in order of decreasing ionization energy. Explain your choices, (a) Selenium, oxygen, tellurium (b) gold, tantalum, osmium (c) lead, barium, cesium. 

Modern periodic tables sometimes differ in which elements are placed immediately to the right of barium and radium. In some cases, the elements are lanthanum and... 

The atomic radii of the second row of d-metals (Period 5) are typically greater than those in the first row (Period 4). The atomic radii in the third row (Period 6), however, are about the same as those in the second row and smaller than expected. This effect is due to the lanthanide contraction, the decrease in radius along the first row of the / block (Fig. 16.4). This decrease is due to the increasing nuclear charge along the period coupled with the poor shielding ability of /-electrons. When the d block resumes (at lutetium), the atomic radius has fallen from 217 pm for barium to 173 pm for lutetium. 

The very long period is closely similar to the second long period, except for the interpolation of the rare-earth metals. It is interesting that a straight line can be passed through the points for barium, the two bivalent rare-earth metals, and the tetrahedral radii of the heavier elements. 

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