Study of Chemical Reactions in the Electrical Discharge

摘要

The major results obtained in the above research project may be sunned up as follows:n1. The mechanism by which hydrogen peroxide vapor decomposes upon heating has been established definitely. Above 400°C and at low pressure the reaction proceeds mostly in the gas phase;no long chains are involved, and the critical energy is about 50 kcal.n2. The thermodynamic properties of hydrogen peroxide and its "heavy" analogue D-O have been computed for temperatures up to 1S00*C. These data will be useful in evaluating the performance of that high-energy chemical.n3. A new interesting effect was discovered incidentally:traces of hydrogen peroxide are very efficient in suppressing explosions at the second limit in mixtures of hydrogen-oxygen.n4. Repeated attempts by various methods have failed to reveal the spectrum of the elusive intermediate HO2.n5. The claims by Russian investigators that a superoxide of hydrogen H2O4 can be produced in large concentrations by bombarding condensed ozone with atomic hydrogen, was proved to be unfounded.