Hard zinc

Hard zinc from the user of flux (hard zinc is considered an alloy of mainly zinc and iron)... 

Significant reduction in hard zinc and zinc ash production (cost reduction due to reduction in the consumption of zinc). 

Closing the loop of solid waste (Zinc ash recovery and hard Zinc recycling). 

Work by Radeker and Friehe (1970) showed that unlike zinc, iron-zinc alloy ( hard zinc ) initially gained in weight in German industrial atmospheres. The behaviors of these types of coating were similar after some years, however. 

In normal soft water the corrosion of zinc and zinc alloys is dependent on the oxygen content, which is generally 6-10 mg/L. Hard waters usually produce a protective film, but for water of 2°-6° German hardness, chloride should not exceed 75 mg/L and for water exceeding 6°C German hardness, it should not exceed 150 mg/L if the protective film is to remain sulfate, however, can be substantially higher. Ammonium salts are always unfavorable and should never exceed 20 mg/L. Copper is especially harmful and should be as low as possible, substantially under 0.1 mg/L. At 2 temporary hardness, zinc is attacked below pH 6.8, but in harder water of 2-6 and 7.6-9.6 pH there is no attack if at least 5 mg/L oxygen is present. 

Radeker, W. (1958). Das Korrosionsverhalten kvinstlich erzeugter Hartzinkschichten (The corrosion resistance of artificially produced hard zinc layers). Metal-loherflache, 12(4), 102-104 (in German). 

Hitachi recommends applying low pH coordinated phosphate treatment for natural circulation boilers as Hitachi s standard for the following reasons. Hitachi has experienced water wall tube explosions that originated in hard zinc scale adhesion. It was thought that zinc dissociated from condensation tubes of copper alloy and deposited on water wall tubes. 

C, b.p. 907"C, d 713. Transition element occurring as zinc blende, sphalerite (Zn,Fe)S calamine or smithsonite (ZnCO j), willemite (Zo2Si04), franklinite (ZnFe204). Extracted by roasting to ZnO and reduction with carbon. The metal is bluish-white (deformed hep) fairly hard and brittle. Burns... 

Rehbinder and co-workers were pioneers in the study of environmental effects on the strength of solids [144], As discussed by Frumkin and others [143-145], the measured hardness of a metal immersed in an electrolyte solution varies with applied potential in the manner of an electrocapillary curve (see Section V-7). A dramatic demonstration of this so-called Rehbinder effect is the easy deformation of single crystals of tin and of zinc if the surface is coated with an oleic acid monolayer [144]. 

The formation of silicon carbide, SiC (carborundum), is prevented by the addition of a little iron as much of the silicon is added to steel to increase its resistance to attack by acids, the presence of a trace of iron does not matter. (Addition of silicon to bronze is found to increase both the strength and the hardness of the bronze.) Silicon is also manufactured by the reaction between silicon tetrachloride and zinc at 1300 K and by the reduction of trichlorosilane with hydrogen. 

If the normal carbonate is used, the basic carbonate or white lead, Pb(OH),. 2PbCO,. is precipitated. The basic carbonate was used extensively as a base in paints but is now less common, having been largely replaced by either titanium dioxide or zinc oxide. Paints made with white lead are not only poisonous but blacken in urban atmospheres due to the formation of lead sulphide and it is hardly surprising that their use is declining. 

Phthalide. In a 1 litre bolt-head flask stir 90 g. of a high quality zinc powder to a thick paste with a solution of 0 5 g. of crystallised copper sulphate in 20 ml. of water (this serves to activate the zinc), and then add 165 ml. of 20 per cent, sodium hydroxide solution. Cool the flask in an ice bath to 5°, stir the contents mechanically, and add 73-5 g. of phthalimide in small portions at such a rate that the temperature does not rise above 8° (about 30 minutes are required for the addition). Continue the stirring for half an hour, dilute with 200 ml. of water, warm on a water bath imtil the evolution of ammonia ceases (about 3 hours), and concentrate to a volume of about 200 ml. by distillation vmder reduced pressure (tig. 11,37, 1). Filter, and render the flltrate acid to Congo red paper with concentrated hydrochloric acid (about 75 ml. are required). Much of the phthalide separates as an oil, but, in order to complete the lactonisation of the hydroxymethylbenzoic acid, boil for an hour transfer while hot to a beaker. The oil solidifles on cooling to a hard red-brown cake. Leave overnight in an ice chest or refrigerator, and than filter at the pump. The crude phthalide contains much sodium chloride. RecrystaUise it in 10 g. portions from 750 ml. of water use the mother liquor from the first crop for the recrystaUisation of the subsequent portion. Filter each portion while hot, cool in ice below 5°, filter and wash with small quantities of ice-cold water. Dry in the air upon filter paper. The yield of phthalide (transparent plates), m.p. 72-73°, is 47 g. 

Place an intimate mixture of 125 g. of powdered, anhydrous zinc chloride and 26-5 g. of acetophenonephenylhydrazone in a tall 500 ml. beaker in an oil bath at 170°. Stir the mixture vigorously by hand. After 3-4 minutes the mass becomes hquid and evolution of white fumes commences. Remove the beaker from the bath and stir the mixture for 5 minutes. Then stir in 100 g. of clean, white sand in order to prevent solidification to a hard mass. Digest the mixture for 12-16 hours on a water bath with 400 ml. of water and 12 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid in order to dissolve the zinc chloride. Filter off the sand and the crude 2-phenylindole, and boil the solids with 300 ml. of rectified spirit. Treat the hot mixture with a little decolourising carbon and filter through a pre-heated Buchner funnel wash the residue with 40 ml. of hot rectified spirit. Cool the combined filtrates to room temperature, filter off the 2-phenylindole and wash it three times with 10 ml. portions of cold alcohol. Dry in a vacuum desiccator over anhydrous calcium chloride. The yield of pure 2-phenylindole, m.p. 188-189°, is 16 g. 

In commercial alloys, 2inc is usually dissolved in the magnesium matrix and in the hard magnesium—aluminum phase when aluminum is present. Zinc additions to magnesium—aluminum alloys change the eutectic stmcture to a so-called divorced eutectic, characteri2ed by the presence of massive compound particles surrounded by a magnesium-rich sohd solution. 

Bases of low polarizabiUty such as fluoride and the oxygen donors are termed hard bases. The corresponding class a cations are called hard acids the class b acids and the polarizable bases are termed soft acids and soft bases, respectively. The general rule that hard prefers hard and soft prefers soft prevails. A classification is given in Table 3. Whereas the divisions are arbitrary, the trends are important. Attempts to provide quantitative gradations of "hardness and softness" have appeared (14). Another generaUty is the usual increase in stabiUty constants for divalent 3t5 ions that occurs across the row of the Periodic Table through copper and then decreases for zinc (15). 

Environment Internal pH 8.2-7.8, phosphate-zinc, chlorine, 65-100°F (18-38°C), calcium, hardness 300-600 ppm, total alkalinity 45-60 ppm... 

Tube side Cooling water, 60-80°F (16-27°C), high hardness and silica, treated with a dispersant and zinc... 

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