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The main industrial use of nitric acid is for the production of fertilizers. Nitric acid is neutralized with ammonia to give ammonium nitrate. This application consumes 75–80% of the 26 million tonnes produced annually (1987). The other main applications are for the production of explosives, nylon precursors, and specialty organic compounds. [39]
NO y is the class of compounds comprising NO x and the NO z compounds produced from the oxidation of NO x which include nitric acid, nitrous acid (HONO), dinitrogen pentoxide (N 2 O 5), peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), alkyl nitrates (RONO 2), peroxyalkyl nitrates (ROONO 2), the nitrate radical (NO 3), and peroxynitric acid (HNO 4).
This complements alternative listing at list of inorganic compounds. There is no complete list of chemical compounds since by nature the list would be infinite. Note: There are elements for which spellings may differ, such as aluminum/aluminium, sulfur/sulphur, and caesium/cesium.
Nitric acid – HNO 3; Nitrous acid – HNO 2; Nitrogen dioxide – NO 2; Nitrogen monoxide – NO; Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen monoxide, laughing gas, NOS) – N 2 O; Nitrogen pentafluoride – NF 5; Nitrogen triiodide – NI 3
Aqua regia is primarily used to produce chloroauric acid, the electrolyte in the Wohlwill process for refining the highest purity (99.999%) gold. Aqua regia is also used in etching and in specific analytic procedures. It is also used in some laboratories to clean glassware of organic compounds and metal particles.
In the NO − 3 anion, the oxidation state of the central nitrogen atom is V (+5). This corresponds to the highest possible oxidation number of nitrogen. Nitrate is a potentially powerful oxidizer as evidenced by its explosive behaviour at high temperature when it is detonated in ammonium nitrate (NH 4 NO 3), or black powder, ignited by the shock wave of a primary explosive.
The Ostwald process begins with burning ammonia.Ammonia burns in oxygen at temperature about 900 °C (1,650 °F) and pressure up to 8 standard atmospheres (810 kPa) [4] in the presence of a catalyst such as platinum gauze, alloyed with 10% rhodium to increase its strength and nitric oxide yield, platinum metal on fused silica wool, copper or nickel to form nitric oxide (nitrogen(II) oxide) and ...
Mercury(II) nitrate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Hg(N O 3) 2. It is the mercury(II) salt of nitric acid HNO 3. It contains mercury(II) cations Hg 2+ and nitrate anions NO − 3, and water of crystallization H 2 O in the case of a hydrous salt. Mercury(II) nitrate forms hydrates Hg(NO 3) 2 ·xH 2 O.