Nitrogen volatile inorganic compounds

Hazardous waste types, which are especially suitable for the pyrolytic treatment, include containerized waste (i.e., barrels) and sludges and liquids that have high ash content, volatile inorganic compounds (NaCl, FeCl2, Zn, and Pb), or high concentrations of chlorine, sulfur, and/or nitrogen. 

A Survey Study of the Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Volatile Inorganic Compounds of Fluorine, Oxygen, and Nitrogen... 

Lassaigne s test is obviously a test also for carbon in the presence of nitrogen. It can be used therefore to detect nitrogen in carbon-free inorganic compounds, e.g., complex nitrites, amino-sulphonic acid derivatives, etc., but such compounds must before fusion with sodium be mixed with some non-volatile nitrogen-free organic compound such as starch... 

In addition to the volatile organic compounds found in water, ammonia is an inorganic compound that may occur in drinking water supplies and is frequently present in waste-waters. Ammonia nitrogen exists in both the dissolved gas form (NH3) and in true solution (NHp. These two species are present in a dynamic equilibrium according to the equation ... 

So far, only kinetic isotope effects have been considered, but isotopic fractionations associated with equilibrium exchange reactions have been demonstrated for the common inorganic nitrogen compounds (Letolle 1980). Of special importance in this respect is the ammonia volatilization reaction ... 

The flavor of fish and seafoods is composed of taste-active low molecular-weight extractives and aroma-active compounds. The taste-active compoimds are more abundant in the tissues of mollusks and crustaceans than fish. The most important non-volatile taste components are fi-ee amino acids, nucleotides, inorganic salts and quaternary ammonia bases. Alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, furans, nitrogen-containing compounds, sulfur-containing compounds, hydrocarbons, esters and phenols are the most important volatiles is shellfish. Alkyl pyrazines and sulfur-containing compounds are important contributors to the cooked aroma of crustaceans. Furans pyrazines, and Lactones have been found in heat-treated seafoods. Dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl trisulfide, heterocyclic sulfiir-containing compounds (alkylthiophenes) have been found in most thermally treated crustaceans like prawn, crab, oyster, crayfish and shrimp (52). 

Current processes for the manufacture of trinitrotoluene (TNT) produce atmospheric and water pollution that is only partly relieved by mechanical clean-up methods. TNT is currently produced from toluene by successive mono-, di-, and trinitrations with mixed aqueous nitric and sulfuric acids in the first two steps and anhydrous mixed acid in the last. Each stage in the current process is conducted at elevated temperatures, and side reactions in the overall process directly produce thousands of pounds of oxides of nitrogen, sulfuric acid aerosols, and volatile nitro organic products (such as tetranitromethane and nitroaro-matics). These pollutants derive from the thermal decomposition of the aqueous nitric acid solutions, from oxidative side reactions that produce as many as 40 by-product compounds, and from formation of unsymmetrlcal "meta" Isomers. Since symmetrical TNT is inevitably accompanied by meta isomers as well as oxidation products, the crude material is treated with sodium sulfite solutions to remove the undesirable Isomers and nitroaromatics by derivatization. The spent sulfite solution, known as "red water, is then disposed of by combustion to an inorganic ash. Itself a disposal problem. 

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