Nitrogen sulphur

THE SODIUM CARBONATE - ZINC METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF NITROGEN, SULPHUR AND HALOGENS IN ORGANIC COMPOUNDS... 

The effect of a particular element on the odour of its compound seems also to lend support to the residual affinity theory, for it is only the elements which possess residual affinity in certain of their compounds, which function as osmophores. Oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorous, halogens, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, etc., whose valencies vary under certain conditions are powerfully osmophoric whereas carbon, hydrogen, and many others which have a constant valency are practically non-osmophoric, and it is very instructive to note that the element is osmophoric when it is not employing its full number of valencies and therefore has free affinity. 

Modern organic chemistry is characterized by the many reactions that have been developed in which new heteroatoms are involved— new , as distinct from the traditional heteroatoms of oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and perhaps even phosphorus. Especially prominent in this new chemistry are tin and silicon, and it is not surprising to find these have been allied with sulphur in novel approaches to syntheses. These novel reactions are often characterized by the mild conditions under which they occur. 

In 1839, vulcanisation process was discovered by Charles Goodyear. In this process, the milled rubber is mixed with sulphur and then introduced in a mould and heated to 150°C for a few hours. The time and temperature of vulcanisation can be decreased by adding certain catalysts called accelerators. They generally contain nitrogen, sulphur or both. 

DETECTION OF CARBON, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN, SULPHUR, AND THE HALOGENS... 

Mineral acids are only formed if heteroatoms such as nitrogen, sulphur and chlorine are present in the pollutant. For example, feni-trothion, an insecticide, undergoes photocatalytic degradation ... 

Anodic oxidation of benzenesulphenanilides 56 leads to cleavage of the nitrogen-sulphur bond in the radical-cation with the formation of a nitrenium ion, which deprotonates to the nitrene. The intermediate dimerises to a phenazine [168]. 

Except the protamines, the histones and the derivatives of the proteins, all the proteins contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur and oxygen, and they possess the following elementary composition —... 

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Off-gas from the coke burner ( -Gas) contains nitrogen, sulphur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapour and other trace contaminants. The -Gas is directed to the CO Boiler for incineration where sulphur compounds are converted to SO2. The Boiler flue gas is passed through electrostatic precipitators for particulate control and then emission to atmosphere. The CO Boiler also serves as the Sulphur Plant tail gas incinerator. Maximum sulphur emissions are 146 tonnes/day or 10.6% of sulphur contained in bitumen feed to the cokers. 

Nitric acid5 undergoes reduction by sulphurous acid less readily than nitrous acid, the product in each case being sulphuric acid with nitrous or nitric oxide it is possible that nitrogen-sulphur acids such as nitro-sulphonic acid are intermediately produced (see p. 248). Nitric oxide can be reduced slowly to nitrous oxide by sulphurous acid, but no further.7... 

Azido carbon disulphide, (S.CS.N3)2, may be prepared by the oxidation of the foregoing compound or its salts. It is a white, crystalline solid, very sparingly soluble in water. At ordinary temperatures it decomposes spontaneously, yielding nitrogen, sulphur and a polythio-cyanogen ... 

In this chapter we discuss the detailed chemistry of selected high-temperature processes where gas-phase reactions are important. Most research on gas-phase reactions has been motivated by environmental issues in atmospheric chemistry or in combustion. Significant advances in the detailed understanding of fuel-oxidation chemistry, as well as nitrogen, sulphur, and chlorine chemistry, have allowed development of modeling tools that can be used for design purposes for a number of combustion and industrial processes. 

Nitric Acid.—-The commercial cone, acid generally contains about 70% HN03. Fuming nitric acid (see p. 512) containing about 95% HN03 (D. 1-5) is available commercially. Usual impurities oxides of nitrogen, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and iodine. 

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