Nitric oxide, solid

The advantages of thermal incineration are that it is simple in concept, has a wide application, and results in almost complete destruction of pollutants with no liquid or solid residue. Thermal incineration provides an opportunity for heat recovery and has low maintenance requirements and low capital cost. Thermal incineration units for small or moderate exhaust streams are generally compact and light. Such units can be installed on a roof when the plant area is limited. = The main disadvantage is the auxiliary fuel cost, which is partly offset with an efficient heat-recovery system. The formation of nitric oxides during the combustion processes must be reduced by control of excess air temperature, fuel supply, and combustion air distribution at the burner inlet, The formation of thermal NO increases dramatically above 980 Table 13.10)... 

N 14.15% a deep blue solid, liq, or gas. The color of the liq is described as that of a coned ammoniacal Cu soln (Ref 2). The odor is described as earthy or similar to sewage sludge (Ref 2). Mp -196.6°, bp -84° (Refs 1 2) CA Registry No 334-99-6 Preparation. It was first isolated as a by-prod from the fluorination of Ag cyanide. Its formation was attributed to the presence of Ag nitrate or Ag oxide in the tech grade Ag cyanide used (Ref 2). The first prepn in good yield was by the irradiation in a sealed tube of a mixt of nitric oxide and trifluoromethyl iodide plus a small amt of Hg with the light from a Hg vapor lamp, yield 75% (Ref 3). 

Nitric oxide exists as a dimer in the solid state. This dimer can occupy two positions as follows ... 

T.M. Giir, and R.A. Huggins, Decomposition of Nitric Oxide on Zirconia in a Solid-state electrochemical cell, J. Electrochem. Soc. 126(6), 1067-1075 (1979). 

C. Sigal, and C.G. Vayenas, Ammonia Oxidation to Nitric Oxide in a Solid Electrolyte Fuel Cell, Solid State Ionics 5, 567-570 (1981). 

Praliaud, H., Mikhailenko, S., Chajar, Z. et al. (1998) Surface and bulk properties of Cu—ZSM-5 and Cu/A1203 solids during redox treatments. Correlation with the selective reduction of nitric oxide by hydrocarbons, Appl. Catal. B, 16, 359. 

A blue, impure and probably polymeric solid, produced from reaction of nitric oxide and nickel carbonyl, decomposed with incandescence at 90° C. The structure is very doubtful but a dinitrosyl was tentatively postulated. A trinitrosyl, [115380-62-6], has been listed recently. 

FIGURE 8.4 XANES spectra of normalized absorptivity versus photon energy depicting spectra of Hractivated Co/Si02 catalysts calcined using (dash-dotted) air or (thin solid line) nitric oxide. Also, spectra of (dashed line) CoO and (thick solid line) Co metal reference compounds are provided. 

N-diazeniumdiolates spontaneously dissociate at physiological pH to release nitric oxide (NO) by stable first order kinetics with half-lives ranging from 2 s to 20 h [209, 210]. They are blessed with many attributes that make them an especially attractive starting point for designing solutions to important clinical problems, namely they are stable as solids, have structural diversity, a controlled rate of release of NO on hydrolysis, and a rich derivatization chemistry that facilitates targeting of NO to specific sites of need, a critical goal for therapeutic uses of a molecule with natural bioeffector roles in virtually every organ [208]. 

These are the most common diazeniumdiolates, formed by the reaction of secondary amines and polyamines with nitric oxide in basic media [214, 215]. They are stable solids, capable of regenerating two equivalents of nitric oxide along with the starting amine in neutral or acidic buffers. The half-life of NO generation varies from a few seconds to many hours, depending on the amine. The decomposition to NO is a spontaneous, first-order reaction at constant pH. 

Nitric oxide has a very low ionization potential and could ionize at flame temperatures. For a normal composite solid propellant containing C—H—O—N—Cl—Al, many more products would have to be considered. In fact if one lists all the possible number of products for this system, the solution to the problem becomes more difficult, requiring the use of advanced computers and codes for exact results. However, knowledge of thermodynamic equilibrium constants and kinetics allows one to eliminate many possible product species. Although the computer codes listed in Appendix I essentially make it unnecessary to eliminate any product species, the following discussion gives one the opportunity to estimate which products can be important without running any computer code. 

Photoacoustic or optoacoustic spectroscopy, which detects the absorption of a pulsed laser in a cell by the pressure pulses generated when the light energy is degraded to heat, which is claimed to have sensitivities of 0.4 ppb for nitric oxide and 5 ppb for ethylene, and which can measure the absorption spectra of solids and dusts. ... 

The advantage of this technique is the rapidity of monitoring for many compounds simultaneously, including some of the liquid and solid inorganic materials—such as sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate, and ammonium nitrate—that may be the final products of the primary pollutants nitric oxide and sulfur dioxide. Also, monitoring the many par-... 

In an atmosphere of nitric oxide, thermal decomposition produces barium nitrite, Ba(N02)2. Reactions with soluble metal sulfates or sulfuric acid yield barium sulfate. Many insoluble barium salts, such as the carbonate, oxalate and phosphate of the metal, are precipitated by similar double decomposition reactions. Ba(N03)2 is an oxidizer and reacts vigorously with common reducing agents. The solid powder, when mixed with many other metals such as aluminum or zinc in their finely divided form, or combined with alloys such as... 

The electrochemical reduction of nitric oxide in solid-state electrochemical cell is an interesting field surveyed in [95]. The working principle of the cells is the cathodic reduction of NO to nitrogen and oxygen anions. In [95], the properties of various types of solid-state electrochemical cells used for NO reduction are presented and discussed. It is shown that the cathode materials with a high redox capacity and oxygen vacancies are most active for the electrochemical reduction of nitric oxide, whereas noble metal-based electrodes show a much lower selectivity. As an alternative route, the promotion of the reduction with a reductive agent is also considered. 

Peroxynitrite is an important cytotoxin that results in vivo from the direct reaction of superoxide and nitric oxide. There are several methods to synthesize peroxynitrite, including the solid-state photolysis of KNOs, the ozonation of sodium azide, or the alkaline reaction of nitrite esters with hydrogen peroxide. Perhaps the most common peroxynitrite synthesis involves treating an acidified solution of hydrogen peroxide with nitrite, followed by an immediate quench with base. Although this synthesis is facile, quick, and affordable, it results in... 

Spectra of nitric oxide reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans (batch eluate). Solid curve, enzyme as prepared (oxidized) dashed and dtit-dashed curves, reduced with a small excess of dithionite. Inset solid curve shows the second derivative of the dashed curve. The protein concentration was about 200 /ng/ml. From Dermastia et al. (1991). 

C. G. Vayenas and R. D. Farr, Science 208, 593 (1980), describe a solid electrolyte fuel cell in which ammonia is the fuel and is catalyt-ically converted at 1000 K with oxygen (or air) to nitric oxide. The idea is that the energy released in this step in industrial nitric acid production (Section 9.4) could be recovered directly as electricity. 

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