Questions tagged [industrial-chemistry]
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Are there methods of synthesizing rubber from plant materials?
First and foremost, I am not talking about natural rubber. I am asking if there are any industrially used methods of synthesizing rubber from agricultural products as opposed to synthesis of rubber ...
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What's the best way to recover silver from industrial and medical x-ray film? [closed]
I washed industrial and medical x-ray film with lye and tap water. Can I add bleach to draw the silver out of the lye or would I just add salt water to get AgCl, then siphon off the excess water and ...
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How did Sinclair Oil put "liquid nickel" into gasoline, and what were the chemical mechanism(s) by which it was supposed to reduce engine wear?
The April 22, 2022 Veritasium video The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History is worth a watch, and was the basis for the question Why would tellurium + sodium hydroxide have worked ...
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What is the purpose of the reflux ratio for solvent extraction?
Not distillation
If I understand it correctly, in my example, one has two components, A and B, starting at the "feed" in the aqueous phase. They get both extracted in the mixer settler, but ...
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Production of town gas
Town gas contains quite a lot of chemicals.
Based on my research, the order of abundance of its constitutes is hydrogen, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, gaseous naphtha and oxygen, if ...
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The contact process
In the contact process, concentrated sulphuric acid instead of water is used to absorb the sulphur trioxide gas produced.One of the reasons suggested online is that the reaction between sulphur ...
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Is chemistry finally seeing the end of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process?
Do recent developments in alternatives to the Haber process for nitrogen fixation have good prospect of replacing it?
Some recent headlines have suggested that the century-old Haber process for ...
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Why would tellurium + sodium hydroxide have worked as a good anti-knock gasoline additive (if it wasn't so smelly)?
The April 22, 2022 Veritasium video The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History mentions several aspects of the historical use of tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline, the resulting widespread ...
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Are coke (solid fuel from coal) and charcoal same thing obtained from different sources?
As coke is obtained from destructive distillation of coal, and charcoal from destructive distillation of substance other than coal (like wood and animal bones), are both the same thing, with charcoal ...
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What is the link between hydrogen production and potassium oxide?
Is there an industrial process that produces hydrogen with potassium oxide as a catalyst?
Or is there a process for the production of potassium oxide that has hydrogen as a by-product?
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How is mercury produced in industry? [closed]
Mercury is the only metal that exists in a liquid state at room temperature.
In which form is mercury extracted from its ore?
If it produced as a solid, how and when is it turned into a liquid?
