A novel moving boundary reaction involving hydroxylamine and nitric acid

1 January 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 18,p. 1038-1039
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39830001038

Abstract

An initially homogeneous solution of hydroxylamine in nitric acid can react to form a two-layer system, a layer of nitrous acid in nitric acid above a lawyer of hydroxylamine in nitric acid, with a sharp boundary between them that moves steadily downwards.

Keywords

MOVES
INITIALLY HOMOGENEOUS
LAYER SYSTEM
INVOLVING HYDROXYLAMINE
NOVEL MOVING
REACTION INVOLVING
BOUNDARY REACTION
TWO LAYER