Open AccessSome electrical and chemical effects of the explosion of azoimide
Publication year - 1913
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1913.0010
Subject(s) - electricity , ion , electrolyte , molecule , electric potential energy , chemical energy , chemistry , environmental science , materials science , electrode , physics , thermodynamics , power (physics) , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
.—In a paper published some years ago, the amount of electricity liberated by exploding electrolytic gas (2H2 + O2 ) at certain pressures was measured and compared with the number of molecules of water formed by the explosion. It was found that about 107 molecules of water were formed for every pair of gaseous ions that reached the electrodes, and that the energy required to produce the observed quantity of electricity was an extremely small fraction of the energy set free by the explosion. The present investigation was undertaken to see whether these results would be substantially modified in the ease of the explosion of azoimide (HN3 ). The explosion of this gas differs from that of electrolytic gas in two important particulars from the point of view of these experiments. In the first place it is disruptive, and secondly it is not productive of water-vapour, which with its well-known influence upon the motion of gaseous ions may, by promoting their re-combination, greatly obscure the electrical effects of the explosion.