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Sodium oxide is a chemical compound with the formula Na 2 O.It is used in ceramics and glasses.It is a white solid but the compound is rarely encountered. Instead "sodium oxide" is used to describe components of various materials such as glasses and fertilizers which contain oxides that include sodium and other elements.
2 (whose melting point is 1713 °C) in molten sodium carbonate (that melts with decomposition at 851 °C): [17] x Na 2 CO 3 + SiO 2 → (Na 2 O) x · SiO 2 + CO 2. The material can be obtained also from sodium sulfate (melting point 884 °C) with carbon as a reducing agent: 2x Na 2 SO 4 + C + 2 SiO 2 → 2 (Na 2 O) x · SiO 2 + 2 SO 2 + CO 2
An example of a spontaneous (without addition of an external energy source) decomposition is that of hydrogen peroxide which slowly decomposes into water and oxygen (see video at right): 2 H 2 O 2 → 2 H 2 O + O 2. This reaction is one of the exceptions to the endothermic nature of decomposition reactions.
For many substances, the formation reaction may be considered as the sum of a number of simpler reactions, either real or fictitious. The enthalpy of reaction can then be analyzed by applying Hess' law, which states that the sum of the enthalpy changes for a number of individual reaction steps equals the enthalpy change of the overall reaction.
A classical example is the decomposition of mercuric oxide to give oxygen and mercury metal. The reaction was used by Joseph Priestley to prepare samples of gaseous oxygen for the first time. When water is heated to well over 2,000 °C (2,270 K; 3,630 °F), a small percentage of it will decompose into OH, monatomic oxygen, monatomic hydrogen, O ...
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