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FREE AMMONIA GAS [2 records]

Record 1 2021-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Water Resources Management
  • Gas Industry
  • Coal-Derived Fuels
CONT

The distillation of coal for the production of gas, coke and the tarry materials used for the manufacture of dyes and organic chemicals results in a watery waste known as ammoniacal gas liquor, and the disposal of this is a cause of pollution. Ammoniacal gas liquor contains free ammonia, ammonium salts, cyanide, sulphide, thiocyanate, and a variety of aromatic compounds including pyridine, phenols, cresols and xylenols.... Gas liquor, discharged untreated to a stream, has an extremely high oxygen demand, many times greater than that of sewage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Gestion des ressources en eau
  • Industrie du gaz
  • Combustibles dérivés des charbons

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Ammonia solutions are water solutions of ammonia gas. They also include those fertilizer solutions consisting of water solutions of ammonium salts such as ammonium nitrate, which are artificially charged with free ammonia gas.

CONT

One aspect of the unique chemistry of urea places some restrictions on its use as a banded source of nitrogen for potatoes. During the biological conversion of urea-nitrogen to ammonium-nitrogen, free ammonia gas can be evolved in significant quantities near the fertilizer band for short periods of time. Because this also occurs near the seed-piece, this free ammonia gas can cause damage to emerging potato sprouts or root systems.

CONT

Ammonia in water exists in two forms : ammonium ion and free ammonia gas. Above a pH of 10. 7 all ammonia exists as gas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Biochimie
CONT

Y a-t-il possibilité d'accumulation du gaz ammoniac dans l'organisme? [...] L'ammoniac peut être excrété dans l'urine, principalement sous forme d'urée et de sels d'ammonium et, à un degré moindre, sous forme d'ammoniac libre.

CONT

[...] l'hydrolyse de l'urée peut s'arrêter ou ralentir lorsque la quantité d'ammoniac libre (non encore fixée) à l'intérieur de la masse traitée est importante.

CONT

Les doses minimum ne s'appliquent que s'il n'y a pas d'autre source d'azote. Les maxima pour ammonium et urée ne sont pas indépendants puisque l'urée s'hydrolyse en ammonium : c'est l'ammonium total potentiel qui compte, ou plus précisément l'ammoniac libre. Il y a équilibre entre ammoniaque (NH4OH) et ammoniac (NH3) dans l'eau, l'ammoniaque se dissociant elle-même en ions ammonium (NH4) et hydroxyle (OH) : cet équilibre dépend du pH et de la température. L'odeur d'ammoniac est perceptible dès 20 ppm d'ammonium à pH 10 et 20 °C. Plus le pH est haut, plus il y aura d'ammoniac libre [...]

Spanish

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