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Effect of transition metal chloride additives on the radiolysis of aqueous sodium nitrate

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Radiolysis of aqueous sodium nitrate solution was studied as a function of concentration in the range 10−4M to 1M NaNO3. The radiolytic yield of nitrite was found to be linear with dose and concentration. The effect of transition metal chloride additives on the radiolysis of 0.01M NaNO3 resulted in higher and lower yields of nitrite in the presence of cobalt and nickel chlorides, respectively, than that obtained in the pure nitrate system. The reduction of nitrate to nitrite is totally quenched even at very low concentration of copper chloride in the binary mixture. The results are explained on the basis of oxidizing and reducing properties of transition metal ions.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Poona, 411 007, Pune, India

    C. D. Kalkar, M. S. Bhujbal & Rajashree Barve

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Kalkar, C.D., Bhujbal, M.S. & Barve, R. Effect of transition metal chloride additives on the radiolysis of aqueous sodium nitrate. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 144, 351–358 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02218142

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