Comparison of chemical reactions in liquid lithium with those in liquid sodium
Comparison of chemical reactions in liquid lithium with those in liquid sodium
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-3115(83)90315-x
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发表时间:
1983-04
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
R. J. Pulham;P. Hubberstey
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作者:
R. J. Pulham;P. Hubberstey
A comparison is made of the chemical properties of liquid lithium and of liquid sodium which are relevant to the use of the liquid metals in fusion and fission reactors. The liquids dissolve both metals and non-metals: the solubility of transition metals is enhanced by the presence of dissolved non-metals, eg nitrogen and oxygen, and this is most obvious in the case of lithium contaminated with nitrogen where the enhanced solubility is accompanied by the existence of stable ternary nitrides, eg Li 3 FeN 2. The solubilities of selected non-metals, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, in the liquid metals are compared, and the fate of salts with polyatomic anions, eg NaOH, Li 2 CO 3, is discussed. Chemical reactions are followed in the laboratory, often by pressure and electrical resistivity techniques, and more recently by electrochemical cells. The reactions can be divided arbitrarily into non-metal with non-metal, non-metal with dissolved metal, and non-metal with solid transition metal. Under these headings, the reactions are represented by: 15 Li 3 N+ Li 22 Si 5→ 5 Li 5 SiN 3+ 42 Li in lithium 4 Li 3 N+ Li 2 C 2→ 2 Li 2 NCN+ 10 Li in lithium 2 “Na 3 N”+ Na 2 C 2→ 2 NaCN+ 6 Na in sodium 4 Ba 2 N+ BaC 2→ 2 BaNCN+ 7 Ba in sodium 2 C+ 2 Li (or Ba)→ Li 2 C 2 (or BaC 2) in sodium 2 N+ 6 Li (or 4 Ba)→ 2 Li 3 N (or 2 Ba 2 N) in sodium 2 Li 3 N+ Fe→ Li 3 FeN 2+ 3 Li in lithium 5 Li 3 N+ Cr→ Li 9 CrN 5+ 6 Li in lithium 3 Na 2 O+ Fe→ Na 4 FeO 3+ 2 Na in sodium 2 Na 2 O+ Cr→ NaCrO 2+ 3 Na in sodium Reasons are suggested for the different behaviour in lithium and in sodium.