Silicon tetrachloride, from decomposition

Modern Manufacturing Techniques. Manufacturing techniques for making bulk vitreous silica are for the most part improved variations of the historical processes. The main exception is the sol—gel process (see Sol-gel technology). All processes involve the fusion or viscous sintering of silica particles. The particles can be in the form of a loose powder or a porous preform. The powders can be made from natural quartz or from the decomposition of chemical precursors, such as silicon tetrachloride, and tetraethylorthosilicate (1 EOS). In some approaches, such as flame hydrolysis, the powder is produced and fused in a single step. The improvements made to these techniques deal mainly with the procedures used to prepare the powders, that is, to control purity and particle size, and the specific conditions under which the powders are consolidated. 

Intramolecular chlorine isotope effects have been determined in metastable ion decompositions induced by El of carbon tetrachloride, silicon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane and hexachlorosilane [687]. In all cases, the isotope effects were normal, i.e. losses involving the lighter isotope Cl were favoured. The loss of a chlorine atom from (CCl3) and from (SiCl4) showed isotope effects greater than 1.50. Other... 

A second possibility is that the ozone forms some kind of complex with the silane before attack on the hydrogen. From this complex, all hydrogens are equally accessible, and the decomposition is first order in complex. In the hope of observing such a complexation, the ultraviolet spectra of ozone/silane mixtures in carbon tetrachloride were examined (33). Although no spectral bands attributable to a silicon-ozone complex were found, it was observed that any silicon-containing species catalyzed the decomposition of ozone. That is, not only triethylsilane, but tri-ethylsilanol and tetramethylsilane as well, destroy ozone in carbon tetrachloride. This result indicates an association of the ozone with the silicon atom, regardless of the functionality of the silicon species (within the types examined) and completely independent of the silicon substrate s... 

A rapid procedure has been described10 based on sodium peroxide bomb fusion, for the determination of silicon and halogen in fluorine-containing organosilicon compounds and resins. The silicon is separated from the decomposition product as zinc silicate and estimated gravimetrically as silica. The filtrate is concentrated, acidified and, when necessary, reduced with sulphur dioxide. Chloride, bromide or iodide is then determined by the usual methods. Fluoride can be determined in neutral solution either gravimetrically as calcium fluoride, or volumetrically with zirconium tetrachloride or thorium nitrate, or directly in the decomposition solution by titration with zirconium tetrachloride. 

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