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Potassium azide is the inorganic compound having the formula KN3. It is a white, water-soluble salt. It is used as a reagent in the laboratory.
It has been found to act as a nitrification inhibitor in soil.[4]
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^T. D. Hughes; L. F. Welch (1970). "Potassium Azide as a Nitrification Inhibitor". Agronomy Journal. 62 (5). American Society of Agronomy: 595–599. doi:10.2134/agronj1970.00021962006200050013x.
Potassiumazide is the inorganic compound having the formula KN3. It is a white, water-soluble salt. It is used as a reagent in the laboratory. It has...
ingredients, such as potassium nitrate and silica. In the latter case, innocuous sodium silicates are generated. While sodium azide is still used in evacuation...
121 pm, about 5 pm longer than for cyanide. Potassium cyanate is isostructural with potassiumazide. The potassium and sodium salts can be used interchangeably...
Hydrazoic acid, also known as hydrogen azide, azic acid or azoimide, is a compound with the chemical formula HN3. It is a colorless, volatile, and explosive...
H2O This formula is typically used to synthesize potassiumazide from caustic potash. Rubidium azide has been investigated for possible use in alkali...
Ammonium azide is the chemical compound with the formula [NH4]N3, being the salt of ammonia and hydrazoic acid. Like other inorganic azides, this colourless...
they also share similarities. Common oxidizers used are potassium perchlorate and potassium nitrate. Common fuels used are titanium, titanium(II) hydride...
submerged in ethanol.[citation needed] Barium azide can be used to make azides of magnesium, sodium, potassium, lithium, rubidium and zinc with their respective...
names of many nitrogen compounds, such as hydrazine and compounds of the azide ion. Finally, it led to the name "pnictogens" for the group headed by nitrogen...
Fluorine azide or triazadienyl fluoride is a yellow green gas composed of nitrogen and fluorine with formula FN3. Its properties resemble those of ClN3...
sodium is used mainly for the production of sodium borohydride, sodium azide, indigo, and triphenylphosphine. A once-common use was the making of tetraethyllead...
However, the alkali metal azides NaN3 and KN3, featuring the linear N− 3 anion, are well-known, as are Sr(N3)2 and Ba(N3)2. Azides of the B-subgroup metals...
heating yields nitrogen gas and water. Barium azide on heating yields barium metal and nitrogen gas. Sodium azide on heating at 300 °C (573 K; 572 °F) violently...
US might contain 130 grams of sodium azide. Similar gas generators are used for fire suppression. Sodium azide decomposes exothermically to sodium and...
explosive, often mixed with potassium chlorate to yield better performance. This compound was superseded by others: lead azide, lead styphnate, some aluminium...
10–20% potassium chlorate is cheaper and more brisant than the fulminate alone. Silver fulminate is often confused with silver nitride, silver azide, or...
decomposition of sodium azide. Potassium occurs in many minerals, such as sylvite (potassium chloride). Previously, potassium was generally made from...
The azo and azide groups respectively, connected to organic/inorganic compounds (e.g. silver azide AgN3, lead azide Pb(N3)2, ammonium azide NH4N3) III...
method includes two reaction steps with potentially hazardous azides. A reported azide-free Roche synthesis of tamiflu is summarised graphically below:...
of products. One of these is the explosive breakdown reaction of sodium azide [(NaN3)2] into nitrogen gas (N2) and sodium (Na). It is this process which...
E2, while weaker bases that are still good nucleophiles (e.g., acetate, azide, cyanide, iodide) will give primarily SN2. Finally, weakly nucleophilic...
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