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Molten lithium sulfate-sodium sulfate-potassium sulfate eutectic: oxidation-reduction reactions of transition-metal compounds

Journal Article · · Inorg. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00230a038· OSTI ID:5630211

Sulfur dioxide was found to reduce a number of first-row transition-metal compounds in molten ternary sulfate eutectic, the ease of reduction being Cr(VI) > Mn(IV) > Fe(III) > Cu(II). A number of other, probably polymeric, cations (Ti(IV), Nb(V), Mo(VI), Ta(V), W(VI)) were not reduced. Potassium dichromate was unstable, slowly decomposing to chromium(III) oxide, chromate, and oxygen, and was converted to chromate by solutions of sodium carbonate. Chromium metal was little attacked by the ternary eutectic, but copper metal reduced copper(II) to copper(I) cations. Solutions of potassium pyrosulfate decomposed thermally but also oxidized chromium metal (to Cr(III)) and iron(II) (to Fe(III)) and reduced manganese(IV) oxide (to Mn(II)) and chromium(VI) (completely to chromium(III)). Though simple cations (Fe(II), Mn(II)) accelerated the thermal decomposition of pyrosulfate, the more polymeric cations (Ti(IV), Nb(V), Mo(VI), Ta(V), W(VI)) caused considerably less evolution of sulfur trioxide. 25 references, 4 figures, 3 tables.

Research Organization:
Univ., Southampton, England
OSTI ID:
5630211
Journal Information:
Inorg. Chem.; (United States), Journal Name: Inorg. Chem.; (United States) Vol. 25:10; ISSN INOCA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English