Sentence examples for sodium amalgam from inspiring English sources
noun
An alloy of sodium and mercury; used as a powerful reducing agent, and in certain types of sodium lamp.
Citral, upon reduction with sodium amalgam, yields geraniol, an important component of rose-scented perfumes.
The ion Yb2+ has also been produced by electrolytic reduction or treatment of a Yb3+ salt with sodium amalgam.
From a set of critically selected literary data on the emf's of concentration cells consisting of sodium metal and sodium amalgam in a sodium salt non-aqueous electrolyte a value of EONa(Hg)/Na+ = −1.95584 V was calculated for the standard equilibrium potential of diluted liquid sodium amalgam at 25°C.
A sodium amalgam is formed during the manufacture of chlorine and sodium hydroxide by the electrolysis of brine in cells wherein a stream of mercury constitutes the negative electrode.
From these data the standard emf of the cell has been obtained and by utilizing data from the literature for the E0 of Ag/AgBr electrode the standard potential of sodium amalgam electrode has been determined.
They reduced dihydroxyacetone oxime with sodium amalgam in presence of aluminum sulphate.
Sodium amalgams are used chiefly for carrying out reactions in situations in which pure elemental sodium would be violently reactive and difficult to control.
The first part, supervised by Richards, concerned "The Electrochemical Behavior of Liquid Sodium Amalgams"; the second, supervised by Kohler, was "A Study of Certain Cyclopropane Derivatives".
Three millilitres of the working solution were reduced using 6 g freshly prepared pulverized 3% (w/v) sodium mercury amalgam under nitrogen atmosphere [ 25].
Gold and silver have long been recovered by the amalgamation process, and amalgams of sodium and potassium have been used as reducing agents.
Separately, we performed in-vitro 131I (sodium iodide) binding assays with amalgam and Argenco HP 77 (77% dental gold alloy) as proof of principle for these interactions.
