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- From: Chuck Harrison <73770.1337@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Nitrogen reactions
- Message-ID: <930106040826_73770.1337_EHA76-1@CompuServe.COM>
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- Reply-To: Chuck Harrison <73770.1337@compuserve.com>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:52:11 GMT
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- In FD676 jr@ksr.com (John Robinson) (5 Jan 93 16:51:10 GMT) writes:
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- > But if nitrogen correlates to excess heat, and oxygen is present, are
- > we simply finding a way to catalyze nitrogen burning?
-
- Making nitrogen oxides (there are plenty to choose from) isn't
- generally an energy-releasing process. On the other hand, making
- ammonia, NH3, from H2 and N2 releases more than 40 kJ per mole. (This
- reaction, enhanced by high temperature, high pressure, and an iron
- catalyst, is used on a large scale for commercial manufacture of
- ammonia.) It is conceivable, under the special conditions existing at
- a Pd or Ni cathode under hydrolysis, that this reaction could proceed
- slowly.
-
- To explain 50 watts of Mills power this way would require over a liter
- per minute of N2 consumption.
- Tom Droege note that this _would_ consume hydrogen.
-
- > This could be tested in a closed cell by flushing with nitrogen...
-
- ... or in an open one by sparging with argon.
- - Cheers, Chuck
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