Hydrogen chloride absorption spectrum

Spectrum.—According to J. Tyndall,18 hydrogen chloride and hydrogen bromide absorb heat rays. W. H. Julius found that hydrogen chloride had an absorption band for the wave-length 3 68[i and K. Angstrom and W. Palmaer at 3 41/u,. W. de W. Abney and E. R. Festing found liquid hydrochloric acid had very feeble absorption lines in the ultra-red at 732, 741, 845, 867, and 949/u/i. 

Elsewhere, in the mid-IR, photon energy is sufficient to modify the quantized terms vib and iJjo in expression 10.2. This is therefore a vibration-rotation spectrum, that is, several tens of rotational transitions accompany each vibrational transition. For the simplest molecules it is possible to interpret particular aspects of the absorption bands. Experience and theory have enabled rules of the permitted transitions to be drawn up. Small molecules as carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride (Figure 10.5) have been intensely studied from this point of view. 

Both technological and atmospheric radiation are mostly associated with water vapor and carbon dioxide, which are significant emitters and absorbers. Other examples of gases of significant emission and absorption properties are carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, and hydrogen chloride. In general, radiation occurs over a number of discrete bands of the electromagnetic spectrum (recall Fig. 8.2). However,... 

The structure —CHC1—CH2—CO—CH2 — was found by Kwei [99] in polyvinylchloride after photo-oxidation. Such j3 chloroketones decompose by the Norrish type I mechanism without loss of chlorine atoms. Hydrogen chloride is obtained only when polyvinylchloride is photo-oxidized above 30°C [98]. It seems that zipper dehydrochlorination plays little role in the reaction occurring on exposure to ultraviolet light at temperatures below 150°C in the presence of air [97], and that hydrogen chloride is mainly a product of thermal decomposition rather than photolysis [98], The following mechanism can be proposed which takes into account the experimental results namely, that chain scission and crosslinking occur simultaneously on irradiation at 253.7 nm [100] and that carbon dioxide is evolved, while an absorption band at 1775 cm-1 (ascribed to peracids) is detected in the infrared spectrum [98]. 

Magnanini studied the absorption spectrum and A. Speransky found that the electrical conductivity of aq. soln. shows that only a small proportion of the salt is ionized. The soln. of the violet modification conducts electricity three times better than that of the green. G. Gore electrolyzed a cone. soln. of chromic fluoride acidified with hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids, and found that the liquid became hot no gas was liberated at the cathode, but chlorine and ozone were liberated at the platinum anode which was not corroded. C. Poulenc showed that the salt is reduced by hydrogen at dull redness. The heat of formation is 230-95 Cals, per mol—vide infra, the dichloride. Steam transforms chromic fluoride into chromic oxide. Chromic fluoride is insoluble in water, and alcohol hydrogen chloride transforms it into chromic chloride hot hydrochloric, sulphuric, and nitric acids attack chromic fluoride only a little hydrogen sulphide converts it into black sulphide and molten alkali nitrate or carbonate converts it into chromate. A. Costachescu prepared complex pyridine salts. 

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