Background The volatility of a compound is its ability to change into a vapor, or to evaporate at a particular temperature and pressure. The normal boiling point of a liquid usually allows comparison of its volatility to other materials, with lower boiling points indicating greater volatility, but this may be affected somewhat by the presence of other materials. Comparison of the concentration ...

Anhydrous liquid ammonia has a boiling point of -33.35 C, which might suggest that it would be a difficult material to handle, particularly in light of the familiar noxious odor of the gas. However, owing to hydrogen bonding, liquid ammonia has a relatively high heat of vaporization (23.3 J/mol vs. 40.7 J/mol for H2O). Thus, if kept in an insulated vessel (e.g., a Dewar flask), its rate of vapo...

A new instrument for the on-line determination of ammonia was developed. Since ammonia is a rather sticky compound, sampling losses were minimised with a new sampling device where the ammonia was transferred to the liquid phase only 5 mm after the inlet tip. The liquid phase was then analyzed by long pathlength absorption spectrophotometry using the Berthelot reaction with phenol and hypochlori...

In the previous paper (l), an oxygen-sensitive thermochromic system was described which involved reactions of anoxic liquid ammonia at 25” with peptides and proteins containing fully combined cystine. Few proteins are very soluble in liquid ammonia, and the question arose whether the reaction in such instances went to completion, the blue color produced representing the reaction product of all ...

Plasmas with dense concentrations of reactive species such as hydrated electrons and hydroxyl radicals are generated from focusing intense femtosecond laser pulses into aqueous media. These radical species can reduce metal ions such as Au3+ to form metal nanoparticles (NPs). However, the formation of H₂O₂ by the recombination of hydroxyl radicals inhibits the reduction of Ag⁺ through back-oxida...

The absorption of carbon dioxide into aqueous ammonia solution using packed column was investigated. The volumetric overall mass transfer coefficients (KGav) for CO2 absorption into aqueous ammonia solutions were evaluated over ranges of main operating variables , that is, upto 16kPa partial pressure of CO2, 61-214 m 3 /(m 2 .h) gas flow rate, 0.753.06 m 3 /(m 2 .h) liquid flow rate, 2%16% ammo...

Miscanthus biomass yield high, high photosynthetic efficiency, fast growth, easy breeding, widely distributed, is suitable as raw materials for the production of fuel ethanol. In this paper, the method of the pretreatment of liquid ammonia for Miscanthus, using the pretreatment of liquid ammonia to overcome biomass recalcitrance, adding cellulase enzyme, and the monosaccharide content is determ...

An extended discussion of solution phenomena in anhydrous liquid ammonia is presented. The solvent properties of ammonia for various classes of compounds is discussed in terms of its hydrogen bonding ability, moderate dielectric constant, elatively high basicity, and high dipole moment. In general, ammonia is a better solvent than water for covalent molecules, but a poor solvent for ionic speci...