Year: 1887
Type: article
Abstract: THE solution of an alkali nitrate, saturatled with hydrogen sulphide, and then acidified with hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, yields sulphur, nitric oxide, and ammonia, but no hydroxylamine,* the presence of this being incompatible with that of what is known as f r e e nitrous acid.When the escaping gases are collected out of contact with air, they slowly deposit sulphur, and do so more quickly on bubbling through water into tlie air, in consequence of reactions between hydrogen sulphide, nitric oxide, and oxygen, but still no hydroxylamine appears.When, however, siZz;er nitrite suspended in water is treated with hydrogen sulphide, besides the sulphur, nitric oxide, and ammonia, still abundantly formed, and the silver sulphide, a considerable quantity of hydroxylamine is also produced.On filtering off the silver sulphide, adding hydrochloric acid to convert the hydrosulphides into hydrochlorides, and evaporating to dryness, a mixture of * Evidence of this will be submitted in our forthcoming paper on mercury nitrites, together with an account of the formation of the nitrite, and the precipitation of the metallic mercury.VOL. LI.
DOI: 10.1039/ct8875100048
Authors: Edward Divers, Tamemasa Haga
Language: English
Subfield: Organic Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2085774737