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The most important source of helium is the natural gas from certain petroleum wells in the United States and Canada. This gas may contain as much as 8 % of helium. Because helium has a lower boiling point Table 12.1) than any other gas, it is readily obtained by cooling natural gas to a temperature at which all the other gases are liquid (77 K) almost pure helium can then be pumped off. The yearly production in this way may be many millions of m of gas. but something like 10 m per year is still wasted. 

Physical Properties. Dimeric ketenes are colorless to dark brown Hquids or crystalline soHds with a broad range of melting and boiling points. Table 2 Hsts examples of dimeric ketenes and thioketenes. 

Write out the electron configuration of sodium, magnesium, and aluminum and find the ionization energies for all their valence electrons (Table 20-IV, p. 374). Account for the trend in the heats of vaporization and boiling points (Table 20-1) of these elements. Compare your discussion with that given in Section 17-1.3. 

Branching of the alkane chain lowers the boiling point (Table 4.2). 

The process to separate the four Cg aromatics by distillation is very difficult because of their closeness in boiling points (table 11.3), so that only o-xylene can be separated by distillation. / -Xylene has a unique high melting point, and can be separated by cryogenic crystallization, but this is an expensive process that requires refrigeration. What is desired is an economic separation process that singles out jo-xylene among these four compounds. 

You will notice that many metals have high densities, high melting points and high boiling points, and that most non-metals have low densities, low melting points and low boiling points. Table 2.2 summarises the different properties of metals and non-metals. 

The first step in refining petroleum is a careful fractional distillation. The products of that distillation are not pure alkanes but mixtures of alkanes with useful ranges of boiling points. Table 3-3 shows the major fractions obtained from the distillation of crude petroleum. 

Crystallization and adsorption are both widely used to perform the separation distillation is not used (except for orthoxylene separation) because of too small differences between the boiling points (Table 10.1). Despite the still high importance of crystallization, adsorption becomes the most widely used technique because of its high efficiency. The adsorbents which are used for selective adsorption of paraxylene are X or Y zeolites exchanged with adequate cations. Liquid phase Simulated Counter Current adsorption, which is the most efficient process, is generally used (1). In addition to the complexity of this process, the choice of an adsorbent selective for paraxylene is the critical point. 

For gaseous samples the enrichment is determined by the free enthalpies of condensation and mixing. The free enthalpy of mixing is mainly a function of the polymer. Thus for some polymers very useful relations exists which derive the enrichment factors of various substances from their boiling points (Table 6.5-3). 

Being compounds of low polarity, the alkynes have physical properties that are essentially the same as those of the alkanes and alkenes. They are insoluble in water but quite soluble in the usual organic solvents of low polarity ligroin, ether, benzene, carbon tetrachloride. They are less dense than water. Their boiling points (Table 8.1) show the usual increase with increasing carbon number,... 

The ability of primary and secondary amines to form N—H---N hydrogen bonds is reflected in their boiling points (Table 16.1). Primary amines have boiling points well above those of alkanes of similar molecular weight but considerably lower than those of comparable alcohols. Consider the following examples ... 

In the vapor all three halides are distinctly molecular, as they are also in solutions. Relative to ionic HgF2, the other halides have very low melting and boiling points (Table 18-11). They also show marked solubility in many organic solvents. In aqueous solution they exist almost exclusively ( 99%) as HgX2 molecules, but some hydrolysis occurs, the principal equilibrium... 

Table 1 lists values for a variety of solid materials. Table 2 covers gases liquids and gases values for cryogenic liquids are given at the normal boiling point. Table 3 gives the speed of sound in pure... 

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