Decomposition of Nitrogen Pentoxide

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Jan 1927

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Nature, Volume 119, Issue 2986, pp. 123 (1927).

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IN a recent paper read to the Chemical Society on December 2 last, I described experiments which show that when nitrogen peroxide is illuminated by light from the mercury vapour lamp a photochemical stationary state of the nature is set up. This change involves a slow but perfectly reversible pressure increase in the gas when illuminated. The light from the mercury vapour lamp between 4360 Å.U. and 3650 Å.U. was shown to be probably wholly photochemically active, but the experiments did not show definitely if light of longer wave-length than this contributed to the effect, since the mercury spectrum is weak between 5460 Å.U. and 4360 Å.U. In view of these results, it does not seem advisable to retain Fazel and Karrer's hypothesis of the photochemical decomposition of nitrogen pentoxide in the presence of nitrogen peroxide (J.A.C.S., 28, 2837, 1926). Arguing from the apparent analogy with other photosensitised systems, these authors suggest that photoactive molecules of NO2 activate molecules of N2O5 by collisions of the second kind, and bring about the decomposition of the latter.

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