Sodium separation

Chitry, F. et al., Cesium/sodium separation by nanofiltration-complexation in aqueous medium, Sep. Sci. TechnoL, 36, 5-6, 1053,... 

CONTINUOUS SODIUM LEVEL INDICATION. The sodium level indicator used on the model tank is shown in Figure 13. It is a solenoid If inches in outside diameter and 5 feet long, made of a close-wound coil of two layers of No. 14 glass insulated wire on an iron core. Each turn of the coil is separately wrapped with glass cloth. It operates on the principle that the effective impedance of a transformer primary decreases as the current in the secondary increases. In this application the solenoid is the transformer primary, and the external sodium separated from the solenoid by a thin-walled stainless steel tube, closed by a lower end, is the transformer secondary. ... 

Eeduce the sulphate of mercury and the chloride of sodium separately to fine powder, and, having mixed them and the oxide of manganese thoroughly by trituration in a mortar, put the mixture into a subliming apparatus, and apply sufficient heat to cause the vapours of perchloride of... 

Figure 8.68 Linearity of the NQAD response for chloride and sodium. Separator column ZIC-HILIC, 5 pm column dimensions 150 mm X4.6 mm l.d. eluent (A) 85 15 (v/v) MeCN/ SO mmol/L ammonium acetate and...

Figure 10.18 Ammonium analysis at high excess of sodium. Separator column lonPac CS1S column temperature 40 °C eluent ...

Fig. 9-22. Ammonium analysis at high excess of sodium. - Separator column lonPac CS15 column temperature 40°C eluant 5 mmol/L H2SO4 - acetonitrile (91 9 v/v) flow rate 1.2 mL/min detection suppressed conductivity injection volume 25 pL solute concentrations 100 mg/L sodium (1), 0.025 mg/L ammonium (2), and 0.025 mg/L calcium (3).

Later, in 1959, Ziegler showed that if a complex of the NaAl (02115)4 type was used as electrolyte, during electrolysis with an aluminum anode metallic sodium separated at the cathode and tri-ethylaluminum at the anode [87] ... 

Heavy metals often can be removed effectively by chemical precipitation in the form of carbonates, hydroxides, or sulfides. Sodium carbonate, sodium bisulfite, sodium hydroxide, and calcium oxide are all used as precipitation agents. The solids precipitate as a floe containing a large amount of water in the structure. The precipitated solids need to be separated by thickening or filtration and recycled if possible. If recycling is not possible, then the solids are usually disposed of to a landfill. 

Nitrous acid, HNO2. See separate entry. Hyponitric acid, H2N2O3, trioxo di-nitrate(Il). Sodium salt from HjNOH in MeOH with CiHiNOi many complexes are known the free acid is unstable. 

Tajima and co-workers [108] determined the surface excess of sodium dode-cyl sulfate by means of the radioactivity method, using tritiated surfactant of specific activity 9.16 Ci/mol. The area of solution exposed to the detector was 37.50 cm. In a particular experiment, it was found that with 1.0 x 10" Af surfactant the surface count rate was 17.0 x 10 counts per minute. Separate calibration showed that of this count was 14.5 X 10 came from underlying solution, the rest being surface excess. It was also determined that the counting efficiency for surface material was 1.1%. Calculate F for this solution. 

Sodium hydroxide is manufactured by electrolysis of concentrated aqueous sodium chloride the other product of the electrolysis, chlorine, is equally important and hence separation of anode and cathode products is necessary. This is achieved either by a diaphragm (for example in the Hooker electrolytic cell) or by using a mercury cathode which takes up the sodium formed at the cathode as an amalgam (the Kellner-Solvay ceW). The amalgam, after removal from the electrolyte cell, is treated with water to give sodium hydroxide and mercury. The mercury cell is more costly to operate but gives a purer product. 

Boron trioxide is not particularly soluble in water but it slowly dissolves to form both dioxo(HB02)(meta) and trioxo(H3B03) (ortho) boric acids. It is a dimorphous oxide and exists as either a glassy or a crystalline solid. Boron trioxide is an acidic oxide and combines with metal oxides and hydroxides to form borates, some of which have characteristic colours—a fact utilised in analysis as the "borax bead test , cf alumina p. 150. Boric acid. H3BO3. properly called trioxoboric acid, may be prepared by adding excess hydrochloric or sulphuric acid to a hot saturated solution of borax, sodium heptaoxotetraborate, Na2B407, when the only moderately soluble boric acid separates as white flaky crystals on cooling. Boric acid is a very weak monobasic acid it is, in fact, a Lewis acid since its acidity is due to an initial acceptance of a lone pair of electrons from water rather than direct proton donation as in the case of Lowry-Bronsted acids, i.e. 

Originally, general methods of separation were based on small differences in the solubilities of their salts, for examples the nitrates, and a laborious series of fractional crystallisations had to be carried out to obtain the pure salts. In a few cases, individual lanthanides could be separated because they yielded oxidation states other than three. Thus the commonest lanthanide, cerium, exhibits oxidation states of h-3 and -t-4 hence oxidation of a mixture of lanthanide salts in alkaline solution with chlorine yields the soluble chlorates(I) of all the -1-3 lanthanides (which are not oxidised) but gives a precipitate of cerium(IV) hydroxide, Ce(OH)4, since this is too weak a base to form a chlorate(I). In some cases also, preferential reduction to the metal by sodium amalgam could be used to separate out individual lanthanides. 

Place 0 5 ml. of acetone, 20 ml. of 10% aqueous potassium iodide solution and 8 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a 50 ml. conical flask, and then add 20 ml. of a freshly prepared molar solution of sodium hypochlorite. Well mix the contents of the flask, when the yellow iodoform will begin to separate almost immediately allow the mixture to stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, and then filter at the pump, wash with cold w ater, and drain thoroughly. Yield of Crude material, 1 4 g. Recrystallise the crude iodoform from methylated spirit. For this purpose, place the crude material in a 50 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, add a small quantity of methylated spirit, and heat to boiling on a water-bath then add more methylated spirit cautiously down the condenser until all the iodoform has dissolved. Filter the hot solution through a fluted filter-paper directly into a small beaker or conical flask, and then cool in ice-water. The iodoform rapidly crystallises. Filter at the pump, drain thoroughly and dry. 

Ethyl bromide soon distils over, and collects as heavy oily drops under the water in the receiving flask, evaporation of the very volatile distillate being thus prevented. If the mixture in the flask A froths badly, moderate the heating of the sand-bath. When no more oily drops of ethyl bromide come over, pour the contents of the receiving flask into a separating-funnel, and carefully run oflF the heavy lower layer of ethyl bromide. Discard the upper aqueous layer, and return the ethyl bromide to the funnel. Add an equal volume of 10% sodium carbonate solution, cork the funnel securely and shake cautiously. Owing to the presence of hydrobromic and sulphurous acids in the crude ethyl bromide, a brisk evolution of carbon dioxide occurs therefore release the... 

Naphthyl Acetate. CHgCOOCi H,. Dissolve 1 g. of pure 2-naphtnol in 5 ml. (r8 mols.) of 10% sodium hydroxide solution as before, add 10 g. of crushed ice, and i-i ml. (1-14 g., 1 5 mols.) of acetic anhydride. Shake the mixture vigorously for about 10-15 minutes the 2-naphthyl acetate separates as colourless crystals. Filter at the pump, wash with water, drain, and dry thoroughly. Yield of crude material, 1-4 g. (theoretical). Recrystallise from petroleum (b.p. 60-80 ), from which, on cooling and scratching, the 2-naphthyl acetate separates as colourless crystals, m.p, 71 yield, 10 g. 

Place I g. of benzamide and 15 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a 100 ml. conical flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, and boil the mixture gently for 30 minutes, during which period ammonia is freely evolved. Now cool the solution in ice-water, and add concentrated hydrochloric acid until the mixture is strongly acid. Benzoic acid immediately separates. Allow the mixture to stand in the ice-water for a few minutes, and then filter off the benzoic add at the pump, wash with cold water, and drain. Recrystallise from hot water. The benzoic acid is obtained as colourless crystals, m.p. 121°, almost insoluble in cold water yield, o 8 g. (almost theoretical). Confirm the identity of the benzoic acid by the tests given on p. 347. 

Since aliphatic hydrocarbons (unlike aromatic hydrocarbons, p. 155) can be directly nitrated only under very special conditions, indirect methods are usually employed for the preparation of compounds such as nitroethane, CjHsNO. When ethyl iodide is heated with silver nitrite, two isomeric compounds are formed, and can be easily separated by fractional distillation. The first is the true ester, ethyl nitrite, C,HiONO, of b.p. 17° its identity is shown by the action of hot sodium hydroxide solution, which hydrolyses it, giving ethanol and... 

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