Electrolytic methods

Hydroiodic acid, the colorless solution formed when hydrogen iodide gas dissolves in water, is prepared by reaction of iodine with hydrogen sulfide or hydrazine or by an electrolytic method. Typically commercial hydroiodic acid contains 40—55% HI. Hydroiodic acid is used in the preparation of iodides and many organic iodo compounds. 

Rubidium was discovered ia 1861 by Bunsen and Kirchoff by means of an optical spectroscope. It was named for the prominent red lines ia its spectmm, from the Latin word rubidus meaning darkest red. Bunsen prepared free mbidium duriag the same year by an electrolytic method. After cesium, mbidium is the second most electropositive and alkaline element. The two isotopes of natural mbidium are Rb [13982-12-1] (72.15%) and Rb [13982-13-3] (27.85%). The latter is a beta-emitter having a half-life of 4.9 x 10 ° yr. Twenty-four isotopes of mbidium are known. 

Diacetone-L-sorbose (DAS) is oxidized at elevated temperatures in dilute sodium hydroxide in the presence of a catalyst (nickel chloride for bleach or palladium on carbon for air) or by electrolytic methods. After completion of the reaction, the mixture is worked up by acidification to 2,3 4,6-bis-0-isoptopyhdene-2-oxo-L-gulonic acid (2,3 4,6-diacetone-2-keto-L-gulonic acid) (DAG), which is isolated through filtration, washing, and drying. With sodium hypochlorite/nickel chloride, the reported DAG yields ate >90% (65). The oxidation with air has been reported, and a practical process was developed with palladium—carbon or platinum—carbon as catalyst (66,67). The electrolytic oxidation with nickel salts as the catalyst has also... 

The foremnner of the modern methods of asphalt fractionation was first described in 1916 (50) and the procedure was later modified by use of fuller s earth (attapulgite [1337-76-4]) to remove the resinous components (51). Further modifications and preferences led to the development of a variety of fractionation methods (52—58). Thus, because of the nature and varieties of fractions possible and the large number of precipitants or adsorbents, a great number of methods can be devised to determine the composition of asphalts (5,6,44,45). Fractions have also been separated by thermal diffusion (59), by dialysis (60), by electrolytic methods (61), and by repeated solvent fractionations (62,63). 

Electrolysis. Although in Western countries the aluminothermic process has now completely replaced the electrolytic method, electrolysis is beheved to be the method used for calcium production in the People s RepubHc of China and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This process likely involves the production of a calcium—copper alloy, which is then redistilled to give calcium metal. 

This conversion is normally accompHshed by immersion, but spraying, swabbing, bmshing, and electrolytic methods are also employed (178) (see Metal SURFACE treatments). The metals that benefit from chromium surface conversion are aluminum, cadmium, copper, magnesium, silver, and 2inc. Zinc is the largest consumer of chromium conversion baths, and more formulations are developed for 2inc than for any other metal. 

CNTs have been prepared recently by electrolysis and by electron irradiation of tube precursors. For example. Hsu e/ al. [30,31] have described the condensed-phase preparation of MWCNTs by an electrolytic method using a graphite rod (cathode) and carbon crucible (anode) (Fig. 6) in conjunction with molten LiCl as the electrolyte, maintained at 600°C under an Ar atmosphere. Application of a dc current (3-20 A, <20 V) for 2 min yielded MWCNTs (2-10 nm in diameter, >0.5 pm in length) consisting of 5-20 concentric layers with an interlayer... 

Electrolytic method This procedure is also known as the Williams Corfleld test d. It is based on loss of metal from iron electrodes buried in a water-saturated soil through which current from a 6-V battery is passed. It does not reflect field conditions and depends upon soil conductance under saturated conditions. 

Protection of niobium and its alloys from oxidation in air is accomplished by coating, e.g. with zinc deposited by holding in zinc vapour at 865°C or coating with a layer of chemically stable oxide, nitride or silicide. Silicide coatings applied by pack cementation, fused slurry or by electrolytic methods have been found to be one of the most effective means of preventing oxidation of the metal. 

Many studies have been undertaken with a view to improving lithium anode performance to obtain a practical cell. This section will describe recent progress in the study of lithium-metal anodes and the cells. Sections 3.2 to 3.7 describe studies on the surface of uncycled lithium and of lithium coupled with electrolytes, methods for measuring the cycling efficiency of lithium, the morphology of deposited lithium, the mechanism of lithium deposition and dissolution, the amount of dead lithium, the improvement of cycling efficiency, and alternatives to the lithium-metal anode. Section 3.8 describes the safety of rechargeable lithium-metal cells. 

Oxinite (Oxinita in Spanish). An expl mixt of Nitroglycol and Dinitrodiglycol prepd by Ohman in Sweden in 1936 directly from ethylene by an electrolytic method... 

An electrolytic method for removing CaO from CaCl2 was suggested by Barletta, et.al.17 The salt is electrolyzed in a cell with a graphite consumable anode. Oxygen is removed at the anode where it reacts with carbon to form CO and C02. Calcium ions are reduced to metal at the cathode. Thus, the electrolytic reduction reaction should be... 

Metallic magnesium is produced by either chemical or electrolytic reduction of its compounds. In chemical reduction, first magnesium oxide is obtained from the decomposition of dolomite. Then ferrosilicon, an alloy of iron and silicon, is used to reduce the MgO at about 1200°C. At this temperature, the magnesium produced is immediately vaporized and carried away. The electrolytic method uses seawater as its principal raw material magnesium hydroxide is precipitated by adding slaked lime (Ca(OH)2, see Section 14.10), the precipitate is filtered off and treated with hydrochloric acid to produce magnesium chloride, and the dried molten salt is electrolyzed. 

US4254 053 (C. Cavazza 3.3.1981 I-prior. 10.7.1978). electrolytic methods for release of base ... 

Commercial methods for extracting Be are of two types. Initially, beryl is converted in a multistage chemical process into pure BeO [or Be(OH>2] the oxide is subsequently reduced to metallic Be using chemical or electrolytic methods. Many processes have been patented for the extraction of BeO [or Be(OH)2] from beryl, but only two are currently commercial these are the sulfate and the complex fluoride processes. 

A series of Be-Pt intermetallic compounds arc prepared during the electrodeposition of Be on Pt from a solution of BeCl2 in an equimol NaCl-KCl mixture at 710°C. X-Ray diffraction of the electrode surface shows the presence of BePt, BcjPt. Electrolytic methods are also used to extract single crystals of Be,V from alloys prepared by arc melting Be and the transition metal in the proportion 15 1. 

M. M. Wong, R. E. Campbell, D. C. Fleck and D. H. Baker Jr., Electrolytic Methods of Preparing Cell Feed for Electrorefining Titanium, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Rept. Invst. No. 6161,1963. 

Creosol (also called 2-methoxy-jb-cresol, 4-methylguaiacol, and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxytoluene) has been obtained by the fractionation of beach creosote tar,4 by the reduction of vanillin by electrolytic methods,6 6 by hydrogen and palladium on charcoal or barium sulfate,7 8 with hydrazine,9 and by amalgamated zinc and hydrochloric acid.3 10 11 It has also been prepared by methyl-ation of 4-methylcatechol with methyl iodide 12 13 or with methyl sulfate 14 and is reported to be formed by the distillation of the calcium salt of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid.16... 

Fluorine was isolated by Henri Moissan at the end of June 1886 during an electrolysis of liquefied anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, containing potassium fluoride, at -23°C. The gas, produced at the anode, was fluorine. This achievement earned Moissan the 1906 Nobel prize in chemistry. Thousands of tons of fluorine are being produced today by essentially the same, albeit slightly improved, electrolytic method. Obviously, this scale of fluorine production means that fluorine chemistry has turned into an important branch of industry. This development can be understood if we look at fluorine from a chemist s point of view. 

Coulometry is an electrolytic method of analysis. In general, electrolytic methods have limited applications in analytical biochemistry but they are useful in the analysis of substances which, while not strictly biochemical, are often important in biological and physiological chemistry. 

With conventional techniques and electrolytes, it was not possible to obtain living anions because they are rapidly protonated by tetraalkylammonium salts and residual water. The first report of the production of living polymers by an electrolytic method has to be attributed to Yamazald et al. [247], who used tetrahydrofuran as solvent, and LiAlH4 or NaAl(C2H5)4 as electrolyte for the polymerization of a-methylstyrene. A similar technique was used to polymerize styrene as well as derivatives [248-252]. 

The main disadvantages, compared to the electrolytic method, are that the silver is recovered as a sludge, making it more difficult to determine the exact amount recovered. The recovered sludge containing silver requires more refining processes than the plate silver obtained... 

The advantages of the electrolytic method is that silver is recovered in an almost pure form, making it easier to handle and less costly to refine. With careful monitoring, it also permits fixer reuse for some processes. It also avoids the need to store and replace cartridges, as with the... 

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