Palladium alloys nitrate

Palladium and Palladium Alloys. Palladium is used in telephone equipment and in electronics appHcations as a substitute for gold in specific areas. Palladium is plated from ammoniacal and acid baths available along with chelated variations as proprietary processes. One typical alkaline bath uses 8 g/L diammine-dinitropalladium, 100 g/L ammonium nitrate, and 10 g/L sodium nitrite. The pH is adjusted to 9—10 using ammonium hydroxide, and the bath is operated at 100 A/m at 50° C. If ammonium sulfamate, 100 g/L, is used in some baths to replace the nitrate and sodium nitrite salts, the bath is mn at lower temperature, 25—35°C, and a pH of 7.5—8.5. A palladium—nickel alloy, 75% Pd, is plated from a bath having 6 g/L palladium from the same salt, 3 g/L nickel from nickel sulfamate concentrate, and 90 g/L ammonium hydroxide. The bath is operated at 20—40°C with 50-100 A/m/... 

The mechanism of stabilisation of the palladium and magnesium nitrates modifier was not investigated [749]. It is known, however, that palladium nitrate decomposes via the oxide to the metal at 870 °C, which melts at 1552 °C. The appearance temperature for palladium in a graphite furnace is around 1250 °C. As most of the investigated elements are stabilised to temperatures around 1200 °C, it can be assumed that the modifier acts by imbedding the analyte into the palladium matrix, or even by forming a kind of alloy with the analyte. 

A detrimental effect of excess nitric acid on the ZnO support was observed, resulting in a reduced ZnO particle size and losses of surface area. This excess was present in the palladium nitrate solution that was applied for catalyst impregnation. Additionally it was found that the PdZn alloy was not only formed during the initial reduction step but also in situ in the hydrogen-rich reaction mixture of methanol steam reforming. 

Interesting support to the belief that the compound Pd2Pb can exist is afforded by the results of experiments 5 to determine the difference of potential between various alloys and pure lead in a normal solution of lead nitrate. The alloys were prepared by melting the palladium and lead under a mixture of lithium chloride and either potassium or barium chloride. Alloys containing less than 33 per cent, of palladium have a potential practically identical with that of pure lead, whilst those containing more than this amount of palladium exhibit a higher potential, which at first rapidly increases with the palladium. Between 20 and 90 per cent, of palladium the alloys are harder than the individual components, a maximum occurring with 65 per cent, of palladium. 

Bulk aluminum may undergo the following dangerous interactions exothermic reaction with butanol, methanol, 2-propanol, or other alcohols, sodium hydroxide to release explosive hydrogen gas. Reaction with diborane forms pyrophoric product. Ignition on contact with niobium oxide + sulfur. Explosive reaction with molten metal oxides, oxosalts (nitrates, sulfates), sulfides, and sodium carbonate. Reaction with arsenic trioxide + sodium arsenate + sodium hydroxide produces the toxic arsine gas. Violent reaction with chlorine trifluoride, Incandescent reaction with formic acid. Potentially violent alloy formation with palladium, platinum at mp of Al, 600°C. Vigorous dissolution reaction in... 

Palladium black was prepared from palladium nitrate and formaldehyde solution by dropwise addition of potassium hydroxide solution (50 wt. %) at about 10°. The solution and precipitate were warmed at about 60° and the precipitate washed several times by decantation. It was then placed in a Soxhlet extractor and washed for 48 hr. (about 100 times). The precipitate was then dryed at 110°. The palladium-silver system is known to be one of complete miscibility (3). Alloys of silver-palladium were prepared following a procedure discussed elsewhere 4). Their preparation involved a low-temperature coprecipitation of both metals from a solution containing proper amounts of their nitrates. Alloy formation was checked by means of x-ray diffraction patterns which were obtained with Cu-Ka radiation. The computed lattice constants are shown in Fig. 1 to be a linear function of the alloy composition. Hydrogen, used for pretreatment of all samples, was obtained from a commercial tank and purified by passage through a Deoxo unit, magnesium perchlorate, and a charcoal trap immersed in liquid nitrogen. 

Pd-Ag bimetallic catalysts supported on carbon xerogels have been used in the hydrodechlorination reaction of 1,2-dichloroethane [103,104], Pd and Ag were deposited by co-impregnation using a solution of palladium and silver nitrates. Metal particle size ranged from 2 to 5 nm in Pd catalysts but had a wider distribution (4 to 20 mn) in Ag catalysts. Bimetallic Pd-Ag catalysts showed small particle alloys of 3 to 4 nm. The bulk Ag content in this alloy was limited to about 50 wt%, which fixed the minimum Pd surface content of the alloy at about 10 wt%. Pd catalysts produced mainly ethane, whereas bimetallic Pd-Ag catalysts were selective for the production of ethylene. The ethylene selectivity increased with silver fraction at the alloy surface. 

Colloids of alloys have been made by the chemical reduction of the appropriate salt mixture in the solution phase. Thus, Ag-Pd and Cu-Pd colloids of varying composition have been prepared by alcohol reduction of mixtures of silver nitrate or copper oxide with palladium oxide (Vasan and Rao 1995). Fe-Pt alloy nanocrystals have been made by thermal decomposition of the Fe and Pt acetylac-etonates in high-boiling organic solvents (Sun et al. 2000). Au-Ag alloy nanocrystals have been made by co-reduction of silver nitrate and chloroauric acid with sodium borohydride (Sandhyarani et al. 2000 He et al. 2002). 

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