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Phosphoric acid is used in many ways that include foods and beverages. It is also used in cleaning metal surfaces, electroplating, fertilizer production, preparing flame-proofing compounds, and other processes in the chemical industry, making it one of the most important of the chemicals of commerce. 

HAL [Hot acid leaching] A process for purifying silica sand or zircon by leaching out surface iron compounds with hot sulfuric acid. Derived from an earlier process, invented in 1955 by British Industrial Sand, in which silica sand was treated with hot, gaseous hydrogen chloride. The process for cleaning zircon sand was developed jointly by Hepworth Minerals Chemicals, UK, and Metallurgical Services Pty, Australia, in 1991. 

Much of surface science research to date has focussed on the physical and chemical properties of clean metal surfaces, a state of matter that is only obtainable under ultrahigh vacuum. However, under practical, real world conditions most metals are covered by an oxide layer or take the form of various compounds, eg. sulfide, carbide, etc. For the last several years my research group has investigated the properties of "chemically modified" molybdenum surfaces which serve as models for the surface of molybdenum compounds. Surfaces that are models for the oxides, carbides, sulfides, and borides of molybdenum are fabricated by the reaction,... 

It had been demonstrated [39] early on that in hydrogen sulfide corrosion the inhibitor has to be in contact with a sulfided (precorroded) surface in order to show inhibition. This observation rendered useless all those test procedures in which the inhibitor is applied to a clean metal surface in so-called film persistency tests. While it is well established that certain chemicals, such as high molecular weight fatty acids, have an affinity for metal surfaces and can form a water repellent film, they are readily replaced by other compounds that have a stronger affinity, for instance H2S. Fatty amines, on the other hand, adsorb strongly on iron sulfide, and their desorption from sulfided surfaces takes much longer them the desorption of fatty acids from bare metal surfaces in the presence of H2S. 

The u.se of well-defined reference materials is crucial with regard to chemical-state determination by XPS. However, it is very difficult to prepare well-defined surfaces for many chemical compounds due to the pre.sence of surface contaminants and multiple chemical states and to the fact that the surface compo.sition is seldom similar to the bulk composition. This point is illustrated by the use of an AgO powder sample to obtain reference BEs and peak shapes for AgO and AgO (45, 46]. The AgO was heated in vacuum in order to decompose first the contaminating carbonate and hydroxyl species and then the AgO it.self to Ag O and finally to Ag metal. The XPS Ag id spectra recorded after heating the sample to various temperatures are shown in Fig. 14. The spectral changes are complex because several Ag species are present and their BEs are separated by only a few tenths of an eV (Table 1.2). Heating at 100°C results in the loss of carbonate and hydroxyl species, at 200°C in the decomposition of AgO to Ag 0. and at 400°C in the decomposition of Ag 0 to Ag metal. Spectrum f was recorded from a clean... 

When organic fluxes are heated beyond their activation temperatures, the chemicals within a flux can breakdown and begin to lose activity, and exhibit a reduced ability to react with the surface contamination. Therefore, to assure that contaminants are properly removed from surfaces to be soldered, fluxes should be heated to a temperature in which they are active for a sufficient period before being in contact with the molten solder. The so-called inactivation temperature is the temperature at which the breakdown of a flux is complete, and the flux no longer reacts with the surface contaminants. In no-clean flux systems, once a flux is exposed to the inactivation temperature for a sufficient period of time, then the residues of the flux compounds become chemically inert. 

The detergent range alcohols and their derivatives have a wide variety of uses ia consumer and iadustrial products either because of surface-active properties, or as a means of iatroduciag a long chain moiety iato a chemical compound. The major use is as surfactants (qv) ia detergents and cleaning products. Only a small amount of the alcohol is used as-is rather most is used as derivatives such as the poly(oxyethylene) ethers and the sulfated ethers, the alkyl sulfates, and the esters of other acids, eg, phosphoric acid and monocarboxyhc and dicarboxyhc acids. Major use areas are given ia Table 11. 

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