Metals, liquid combined

Since no special ligand design is usually required to dissolve transition metal complexes in ionic liquids, the application of ionic ligands can be an extremely useful tool with which to immobilize the catalyst in the ionic medium. In applications in which the ionic catalyst layer is intensively extracted with a non-miscible solvent (i.e., under the conditions of biphasic catalysis or during product recovery by extraction) it is important to ensure that the amount of catalyst washed from the ionic liquid is extremely low. Full immobilization of the (often quite expensive) transition metal catalyst, combined with the possibility of recycling it, is usually a crucial criterion for the large-scale use of homogeneous catalysis (for more details see Section 5.3.5). 

Stress-corrosion cracking (Section 8.10) New metal/environment combinations which produce stress-corrosion cracking are continually being found. Combinations discovered in service in recent years include titanium in red fuming nitric acid carbon steel in liquid anhydrous ammonia and in... 

A method has recently been described for wrapping polymers around metal atoms and very small metal clusters using both matrix and macroscale metal vapor-fluid polymer synthetic techniques. Significant early observations are that (i) the experiments can be entirely conducted at, or close to room temperature, (ii) the resulting "pol5aner stabilized metal cluster combinations are homogeneous liquids which are stable at or near room temperature, and (,iii) the methodology is easily extended to bimetallic and trimetallic polymer combinations. ... 

Alloys are classified broadly in two categories, single-phase alloys and multiple-phase alloys. A phase is characterized by having a homogeneous composition on a macroscopic scale, a uniform structure, and a distinct interface with any other phase present. The coexistence of ice, liquid water, and water vapor meets the criteria of composition and structure, but distinct boundaries exist between the states, so there are three phases present. When liquid metals are combined, there is usually some limit to the solubility of one metal in another. An exception to this is the liquid mixture of copper and nickel, which forms a solution of any composition between pure copper and pure nickel. The molten metals are completely miscible. When the mixture is cooled, a solid results that has a random distribution of both types of atoms in an fee structure. This single solid phase thus constitutes a solid solution of the two metals, so it meets the criteria for a single-phase alloy. 

Reference 4 and several standards provide guidelines for selecting dispersants ASTM standard B821-92 for metal powders (and some carbides and sulfides) in water British Standard (BS) 3466 (part 4) for oxides and ISO TC24/SC4/WG11 (1997) for a wide range of powder—liquid combinations. 

Electrochemical reactions occur at the interface between two phases with sufficiently different conduction behavior, i.e. a predominantly ion-conducting electrolyte phase and an electrode phase with predominantly electronic conduction. Among all possible types of interfaces the most intensively applied are solid metal liquid electrolyte and solid metal solid electrolyte. Electrode systems which have been much less studied are those formed by combining either a solid or liquid conducting phase with a low-temperature gas discharge (plasma). 

The reduction of conjugated olefins under oxo conditions is reminiscent of the reduction of the same systems by sodium and liquid ammonia and by metal-acid combinations. These reductions are thought to consist of electron transfers, involving one or two electron shifts, the electrons being supplied by the metal going into solution (Hammett, 20). With stilbene and sodium in liquid ammonia, the reaction may be represented (Schlenk and Bergmann, 49) ... 

Barium is an active metal. It combines easily with oxygen, the halogens, and other non-metals. The halogens are Group 17 (VIIA) of the periodic table and include fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine. Barium also reacts with water and with most acids. It is so reactive that it must be stored under kerosene or some similar petroleum-based liquid to prevent it from reacting with oxygen and moisture in the air. Of the alkaline earth family, only radium is more reactive. 

It was bold to suggest that mercury, a silvery metallic liquid, and sulphur, a readily fusible yellow solid, should combine to form the red mineral cinnabar, rather than the yellowish metal, gold. Indeed it seems equally bold today to advance the idea that the entire richness and diversity of the material world is formed by union of only a hundred kinds of atomic particles. Our notion that water is made from the particles of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, in two-to-one proportion may seem no less preposterous than Aristotle s notion that water represents the impress of wetness and coldness on a matter-stuff, or than the notion of Thales of Miletus that water is itself the sole elementary source of the world.t But we have vastly more evidence to support today s fantastic contention than did the ancients. That evidence is the major content of the chemical knowledge acquired over the past three centuries. 

As with scale formation the precipitation of organic compounds will depend on the temperature distribution. Bott and Gudmundsson [1977] proposed a qualitative model of organic precipitation. If a waxy hydrocarbon flowing across a cold surface and the metal/liquid interface is at the cloud point temperature, crystals of wax will form on the surface. If the surface temperature is below the cloud point temperature the cloud point temperature will be located away from the surface towards the bulk liquid. The precise location will depend on the thermal resistance of the laminar sub-layer combined with the resistance of any deposit already on the surface. High thermal resistance between the solid surface and the... 

Sodium in liquid ammonia, in the presence of ethanol, affords the 1,4-dihydropyridine and 4-pyridones are reduced to 2,3-dihydro-derivatives. " Metal/acid combinations, which in other contexts do bring about reduction of iminium groups, are without effect on pyridines. Samarium(II) iodide in the presence of water smoothly reduces pyridine to piperidine. ... 

Hydroxide salts are made up of a metal and the nomnetal hydroxide radical -OH The name always ends with the word hydroxide. They are water-reactive and, when in contact with water, release heat and form a corrosive liquid. In the following example, calcium metal is combined with the hydroxide radical the resulting compound is calcium hydroxide, a hydroxide salt. Ca+ + OH = Ca(OH), calcium hydroxide, a hydroxide salt, releases heat and forms a corrosive liquid, calcium hydroxide, in contact with water. 

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