The Reactions of Active Nitrogen with Molecular Oxygen, Atomic Oxygen and Hydrogen

The Reactions of Active Nitrogen with Molecular Oxygen, Atomic Oxygen and Hydrogen
Author: Constantine Mavroyannis
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Release: 1961
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"For the reaction of nitrogen atoms with molecular oxygen, the nitrogen and oxygen atom concentrations were estimated, at different temperatures and pressures, by addition of excess N0 and measurement of N2O and NO produced. The rate constant was given by 2.3 x 10^12 exp(-5,900/RT) cc mole^-1 sec^-1. The maximum production of oxygen atoms was found to correspond to the maximum amount of HCN produced in the active nitrogen-ethylene reaction. A rate constant of 1.83(+- 0.2) x 10^15 cc^2 mole^-2 sec^-1 was determined for the reaction of nitrogen atoms with oxygen atoms, in the absence of molecular oxygen, at pressures of 3, 3.5 and 4 mm, in an unheated reaction tube. The nitrogen atom consumption was estimated by titrating active nitrogen with NO at different positions along the reaction tube. Using the same titration method, the rate constant for the decay of nitrogen atoms, in an unheated vessel, was found to have the value of 5.2 x 10^15 cc^2 mole^-2 sec^-1, with y= 7.5 (-+ 0.6) x 10^-5, in the pressure range from 0.5 to 4 mm. Under similar conditions, and by similar methods, a value of 4.87(+- 0.8) x 10^14 cc^2 mole^-2 sec^-l was obtained for the rate constant of the reaction between nitrogen atoms and hydrogen atoms, over the pressure range from 2.5 mm to 4.5 mm." --

Active Nitrogen

Active Nitrogen
Author: A. Nelson Wright
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483194868

Physical Chemistry, A Series of Monographs: Active Nitrogen presents the methods by which active nitrogen may be produced. This book is composed of five chapters that evaluate the energy content, molecular spectrum, and the emission of active nitrogen. Some of the topics covered in the book are the summary of light-emitting systems of active nitrogen; analysis of Long-Lived Lewis-Rayleigh Afterglow theory and Ionic theory of Mitra; reactions followed by induced light emission; and characteristics of homogeneous recombination. Other chapters deal with the analysis of metastable molecule theories and the mechanisms for reactions of active nitrogen involving direct N(4S) attack. The discussion then shifts to the rate constants for reactions induced by direct N(4S) attack. The evaluation of the Short-Lived Energetic Afterglow theory is presented. The final chapter is devoted to the examination of emission from molecular species with electronic energy levels below 9.76 eV. The book can provide useful information to physicists, students, and researchers.

Active Nitrogen

Active Nitrogen
Author: Archibald Nelson Wright
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Release: 1968
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LIGHT EMISSION FROM ACTIVE NITROGEN SYSTEMS; AFTERGLOW SPECIES, THEIR LIFETIMES AND CONCENTRATIONS; THEORIES OF ACTIVE NITROGEN; CHEMICAL REACTIONS OF ACTIVE NITROGEN.

The Reactions of Active Nitrogen with Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide

The Reactions of Active Nitrogen with Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide
Author: Gentil Jules Oscar Verbeke
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Release: 1958
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"Lewis (1) in 1900 was the first to observe the yellow afterglow resulting from the passage of an electrical discharge through nitrogen and to identify its banded spectrum as that of nitrogen. In 1911 Strutt, later Lord Rayleigh (2), published the first in a series of papers on the chemical reactions of active nitrogen and the emission spectra associated with active nitrogen and its interaction with other substances. Metallic vapours, he found, were converted to the nitrides whereas various hydrocarbons, saturated, unsaturated and even substituted, yielded hydrogen cyanide with a concurrent emission of the CN spectrum." --

An Investigation of Some Reactions of Active Nitrogen

An Investigation of Some Reactions of Active Nitrogen
Author: David R. Safrany
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Total Pages: 186
Release: 1964
Genre: Chemical kinetics
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The reactions of active nitrogen were studied in a fast-flow, low-pressure system using a mass spectrometer whose leak was located directly downstream from the reaction zone. Reactions of metastable N2(A3 & (+)u) molecules, produced by means of surface catalyzed excitation, were also studied. The results of the excited molecule experiments indicated that, in general, N2(A3 & (+)u) molecules do not play a major role in the reactions of active nitrogen with inorganic and organic substances such as: O2, O3, N2O, C2H2 and C2H4. The reactions of N-atoms with hydrocarbons were studied along the lines of previous workers. It was found that, contrary to earlier work, HCN is not the only major nitrogencontaining product formed, but N2 is also a substantial product. Under certain conditions, NH3 and CH3CN can also be major products. Ammonia added to the flame zone of the C2H2-active nitrogen reaction was found to react with CH radicals formed, yielding HCN. A general degradation mechanism is proposed involving the attack of the hydrocarbon, in general, by a radical other than the N-atom as the initial step. (Author).