Gaseous oxides

Dilute acids have no effect on any form of carbon, and diamond is resistant to attack by concentrated acids at room temperature, but is oxidised by both concentrated sulphuric and concentrated nitric acid at about 500 K, when an additional oxidising agent is present. Carbon dioxide is produced and the acids are reduced to gaseous oxides ... 

Sohd silver is more permeable by oxygen than any other metal. Oxygen moves freely within the metallic silver lattice, not leaving the surface until two oxygen atoms connect to form Og. This occurs at - 300° C. Below this temperature silver is an efficient catalyst for gaseous oxidative chemical reactions. Silver is also an extremely efficient catalyst for aqueous oxidative sanitation. 

Active oxidation occurs where the oxygen partial pressure is low and gaseous oxidation products are formed. 

Directed Oxidation of a Molten Metal. Directed oxidation of a molten metal or the Lanxide process (45,68,91) involves the reaction of a molten metal with a gaseous oxidant, eg, A1 with O2 in air, to form a porous three-dimensional oxide that grows outward from the metal/ceramic surface. The process proceeds via capillary action as the molten metal wicks into open pore channels in the oxide scale growth. Reinforced ceramic matrix composites can be formed by positioning inert filler materials, eg, fibers, whiskers, and/or particulates, in the path of the oxide scale growth. The resultant composite is comprised of both interconnected metal and ceramic. Typically 5—30 vol % metal remains after processing. The composite product maintains many of the desirable properties of a ceramic however, the presence of the metal serves to increase the fracture toughness of the composite. 

The Fire Triangle The well-known/i/ g triangle (see Fig. 26-33) is used to represent the three conditions necessary for a fire (1) fuel, (2) oxygen or other oxidizer (a gaseous oxidizer such as chlorine, a liquid oxidizer such as bromine, or a solid oxidizer such as sodium bro-mate), and (3) heat (energy). 

Elammability Limits The minimum and maximum concentrations of combustible material in a homogeneous mixture with gaseous oxidizer that will propagate a flame. 

The solid iron ore is formed into pellets, which are presented to the gas in a vertical shaft containing the pellets in tire form of a packed bed. The reducing gas enters the shaft at the bottom and rises tluough the packed bed reacting to form gaseous oxidation products, CO2 and H2O. The heat required to raise the reactants to a temperature at which the reaction rate is fast enough is usually canied by the inlet gas phase. 

By tire coiTect choice of the metal oxide/carbon ratio in the ingoing burden for the furnace, the alloy which is produced can have a controlled content of carbon, which does not lead to the separation of solid carbides during the reduction reaction. The combination of the carbon electrode, tire gaseous oxides and the foamed slag probably causes tire formation of a plasma region between the electrode aird the slag, and this is responsible for the reduction of elecU ical and audible noise which is found in this operation, in comparison with tire arc melting of scrap iron which is extremely noisy, and which injects unwanted electrical noise into the local electrical distribution network. 

Flammable Limits The minimum and maximum concentration of fuel vapor or gas in a fuel vapor or gas/gaseous oxidant mixture (usually expressed in percent hy volume) defining the concentration range (flammable or explosive range) over which propagation of flame will occur on contact with an ignition source. See also Lower Flammable Limit and Upper Flammable Limit. 

The older process is called the lead chamber process. It uses a mixture of gaseous oxides of nitrogen—nitric oxide, NO, and nitrogen dioxide, N02—as the catalyst. This process has been in use and under development for over 200 years. It is named after the large room-like chambers lined with lead in which the gaseous reactions are carried out. The lead walls react with the acid and become coated with an inert protective coating of lead sulfate. 

Two-phase detonations involving fuel drops or solid particles and a gaseous oxidizer have been observed (Refs 8, 9 11). Detonations in fuel drop and gaseous (air or pure oxygen) mixts have been studied in greater detail because of... 

Solid particle-gaseous oxidizer systems have been studied because of applications to propints and expls (Refs 5 14), and hazards due to dust explns (Refs 1,3, 4, 6, 7, 10 15). Strauss (Ref 9) reported on a heterogeneous detonation in a solid particle and gaseous oxidizer mixt the study concerned A1 powder and pure oxygen in a tube. Detonations initiated, by a weak source were obtained in mixts contg 45-60% fuel by mass. Measured characteristics of the detonations agreed with theoretical calcns within about 10%, and detonation pressures of up to 31 atms were observed. With regard to solid particle-air mixts, detonations have not been reported only conditions for expln have been studied (Ref 2)... 

To describe hypergolic heating, Anderson and Brown (A10) proposed a theoretical model based upon spontaneous exothermic heterogeneous reactions between the reactive oxidizer and a condensed phase at the gas-solid interface. In these studies, the least complex case was considered, i.e., the one in which the solid phase is instantaneously exposed to a stagnant (nonflowing) gaseous oxidizer environment. This situation can be achieved experimentally provided the sample to be tested is suddenly injected into the desired environment in a manner designed to minimize gas flow. 

Parametric studies showed that mass diffusion in the gas phase could be neglected under most conditions. The calculations also show that the selection of the hypergolic combination (i.e., the gaseous oxidizer and the propellant system) fixes all of the parameters except the initial temperature and the oxidizer concentration. A general solution of the model shows that the ignition-delay time is approximately rated to the gaseous oxidizer concentration by the relation... 

The relative thicknesses of the fuel and the oxidizer slab are determined by the stoichiometry of the particular propellant formulation. At the surface of the oxidizer slab, the solid oxidizer is assumed to vaporize, producing the gaseous oxidizer decomposition products. At the fuel surface, a similar assumption is made. 

Silicon is generally considered to be a congener of carbon and this is also reflected in the evolution of silicon as a reducing agent for metal oxides. Silicon forms a fairly stable solid oxide silica or silicon dioxide (Si02) and also a stable gaseous oxide silicon monoxide (SiO), both of which can be useful in oxide reduction reactions. 

The liquid or gaseous oxide will explode in contact with solid potassium hydroxide or its cone, solution. 

The maximum and minimum concentrations of a gas, vapor, mist, spray, or dust in the air or other gaseous oxidant for a stable detonation to occur are the so-called upper and lower detonation limits. These limits depend on the size and geometry of the surroundings as well as other factors. Therefore, detonation limits found in the literature should be used with caution. Detonation limits are sometimes confused with deflagration limits and the term explosive limits is then used inconsiderately [40]. 

Both models apply the same chemical scheme of mercury transformations. It is assumed that mercury occurs in the atmosphere in two gaseous forms—gaseous elemental HgO, gaseous oxidized Hg(II) particulate oxidized Hgpart, and four aqueous forms—elemental dissolved HgO dis, mercury ion Hg2+, sulphite complex Hg(S03)2, and aggregate chloride complexes HgnClm. Physical and chemical transformations include dissolution of HgO in cloud droplets, gas-phase and aqueous-phase oxidation by ozone and chlorine, aqueous-phase formation of chloride complexes, reactions of Hg2+ reduction through the decomposition of sulphite complex, and adsorption by soot particles in droplet water. 

Explosion Propagation of a flame in a premixture of combustible gases, suspended dust(s), combustible vapor(s), mist(s), or mixtures thereof, in a gaseous oxidant such as air, in a closed or substantially closed vessel. 

Fluorine flame calorimetry is a logical extension of oxygen flame calorimetry in which a gas is burned in excess of gaseous oxidant (214). The decision does not reach that of the oxygen flame calorimeter in which, for example, Affj(H20) was determined with a standard deviation of 0.01%. Combustions of H2, NH3 (8), and fluorinated hydrocarbons are typical applications, but the uncertain nonideality corrections of HF(g) prevent full realization of the inherent accuracy. 

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