Potassium chlorine, reaction with

ALGOFRENE TYPE 2 (75-71-8) Contact with water causes slow decomposition. Reacts, possibly violently, with barium, sodium, and potassium. Violent reaction with molten aluminum, magnesium. Undergoes thermal decomposition when exposed to red-hot surfaces or fire, forming chlorine, hydrogen fluoride or chloride, phosgene, and carbonyl fluoride. Attacks some plastics, rubber, and coatings. 

A solution to the question of the mechanism of these reactions was provided by John D Roberts m 1953 on the basis of an imaginative experiment Roberts prepared a sample of chlorobenzene m which one of the carbons the one bearing the chlorine was the radioactive mass 14 isotope of carbon Reaction with potassium amide m liquid... 

Molten sodium cyanide reacts with strong oxidizing agents such as nitrates and chlorates with explosive violence. In aqueous solution, sodium cyanide is oxidized to sodium cyanate [917-61 -3] by oxidizing agents such as potassium permanganate or hypochlorous acid. The reaction with chlorine in alkaline solution is the basis for the treatment of industrial cyanide waste Hquors (45) ... 

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