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Sulfur brittleness

Sulfur is pale yellow, odorless, brittle solid, which is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulfide. In every state, whether gas, liquid or solid, elemental sulfur occurs in more than one allotropic form or modification these present a confusing multitude of forms whose relations are not yet fully understood. [Pg.38]

Many existing roads fail because the asphalt becomes stiff and brittle. If the materials are too stiff, additives that lower the viscosity must be used. The feasibihty of usiag sulfur to soften or reduce the viscosity of the oxidized biader ia recycled pavements has been successfully demonstrated by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and others (55—57). [Pg.126]

Coking coal is cleaned so that the coke ash content is not over 10%. An upper limit of 1—2 wt % sulfur is recommended for blast furnace coke. A high sulfur content causes steel (qv) to be brittle and difficult to roU. Some coal seams have coking properties suitable for metallurgical coke, but the high sulfur prevents that appHcation. Small amounts of phosphoms also make steel brittle, thus low phosphoms coals are needed for coke production, especially if the iron (qv) ore contains phosphoms. [Pg.223]

The cellulose fiber in paper is attacked and weakened by sulfur dioxide. Paper made before about 1750 is not significantly affected by sulfur dioxide (11). At about that time, the manufacture of paper changed to a chemical treatment process that broke down the wood fiber more rapidly. It is thought that this process introduces trace quantities of metals, which catalyze the conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric add. Sulfuric acid causes the paper to become brittle and more subject to cracking and tearing. New papers have become available to minimize the interaction with SO2. [Pg.132]

Nickel/silicon alloy (10% silicon, 3% copper, and 87% nickel) is fabricated only as castings and is rather brittle, although it is superior to the iron/silicon alloy with respect to strength and resistance to thermal and mechanical shock. It is comparable to the iron/silicon alloy in corrosion resistance to boiling sulfuric acid solutions at concentrations above 60%. Therefore, it is chosen for this and other arduous duties where its resistance to thermal shock justifies its much higher price compared with iron/silicon alloys. [Pg.76]

Silicon used for diffusion treatment of carbon steels enhances corrosion resistance to sulfuric acid. Such a treatment has the surface durability of iron/silicon alloys without their marked brittleness. [Pg.101]

Soft rubber is obtained by adding 2-4% sulfur by adding extra sulfur (25-40%), the rubber can be made into ebonite, which is a hard, brittle material, having a wider range of chemical resistance than soft rubber. Soft ordinary rubber is chemical and erosion resistant, but its thermal resistance is not high (about 80 C). [Pg.122]

A malleable substance (from rhe Latin word for hammer ) is one that can be hammered into thin sheets (Fig. B. 11). A ductile substance (from the Latin word for drawing out ) is one that can be drawn out into wires. Copper, for example, is a metal. It conducts electricity, has a luster when polished, and is malleable. It is so ductile that it is readily drawn out to form electrical wires. Sulfur, on the other hand, is a nonmetal. This brittle yellow solid does not conduct electricity, cannot be hammered into thin sheets, and cannot be drawn out into wires. The distinctions between metals and metalloids and between metalloids and nonmetals are not very precise (and not always made), but the metalloids are often taken to be the seven elements shown in Fig. B.12 on a diagonal band between the metals on the left and the nonmetals on the right. [Pg.45]

Cyclization is generally very effective in improving the adhesion of TR and SBR to polyurethane adhesives. Rubbers treated with concentrated sulfuric acid yield a cyclized layer on the surface. This layer is quite brittle, and when flexed develops microcracks, which are believed to help in subsequent bonding by favoring the mechanical interlocking of the adhesive with the mbber. [Pg.763]

The iron formed in a blast furnace, called pig iron, contains impurities that make the metal brittle. These include phosphorus and silicon from silicate and phosphate minerals that contaminated the original ore, as well as carbon and sulfur from the coke. This iron is refined in a converter furnace. Here, a stream of O2 gas blows through molten impure iron. Oxygen reacts with the nonmetal impurities, converting them to oxides. As in the blast furnace, CaO is added to convert Si02 into liquid calcium silicate, in which the other oxides dissolve. The molten iron is analyzed at intervals until its impurities have been reduced to satisfactory levels. Then the liquid metal, now in the form called steel, is poured from the converter and allowed to solidify. [Pg.1468]

Mineral tanning was probably first practiced in ancient Mesopotamia and then spread to Egypt, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean Sea area (Levey 1958). Mineral-tanned leather is soft to handle, has a velvety texture, and is almost white, a color practically impossible to achieve by other tanning processes. It is, however, very sensitive to humidity and water under wet conditions the alum in the leather is hydrolyzed (decomposed by water), forming sulfuric acid, a very strong acid that attacks the leather and causes its rapid decay. Mineral-tanned leather that has been humid or wet for a more or less extended period of time loses some of its characteristic properties, such as softness, pliability, and strength, and becomes hard, horny, and brittle. [Pg.361]

The impurities in pig iron, the iron formed in a blast furnace, that make it brittle include four elements phosphorus and silicon, two elements that came from the silicate and phosphate minerals that contaminated the original ore, and carbon and sulfur that came from the coke. [Pg.428]

Germanium has a gray shine with a metallic silvery-white luster. It is a brittle element classed as a semimetal or metalloid, meaning it is neither a metal such as iron or copper nor a nonmetal, such as phosphorus, sulfur, or oxygen. Germanium has some properties like a metal and some like a nonmetal. It is a crystal in its pure state, somewhat like silicon. It will combine with oxygen to form germanium dioxide, which is similar to sihcon dioxide (sand). [Pg.198]

Arsenic is classed as a semimetal, meaning that it is neither a metal like aluminum or lead, nor quite a nonmetal such as oxygen, sulfur, or chlorine. Arsenic s main allotrope is a silvery-gray, brittle, metal-like substance. Its other two isotopes are unstable crystalline substances. [Pg.215]

Tellurium is a silver-white, brittle crystal with a metallic luster and has semiconductor characteristics. It is a metalloid that shares properties with both metals and nonmetals, and it has some properties similar to selenium and sulfur, located just above it in group 16 of the periodic table. [Pg.239]

Brittle, yellow, reactive nonmetal used mainly to produce sulfur dioxide useful in textile manufacturing, paper making, and as a food preservative. [Pg.229]

Grayish-white cubic crystals lustrous and brittle density 5.323 g/cm hardness 6.0 Mohs melts at 938.2°C vaporizes at 2,833°C a poor conductor of electricity electrical resistivity 47 microhm-cm dielectric constant 15.7 specific magnetic susceptibility (at 20°C) 0.122x10 insoluble in water, dilute acids and dilute alkalies attacked by concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids, aqua regia and fused alkalies. [Pg.314]

Beta-sulfur is pale-yellow, opaque needle-like crystals monoclinic structure brittle stable between 94.5 to 120°C converts to orthorhombic form on standing density 1.96 g/cm melts at 115.2°C. [Pg.891]


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