If oxidizing a membrane, the support material should be gently agitated throughout the reaction in a bath of the periodate solution. Periodate oxidation takes place rapidly to form aldehydes within the matrix, and such reactions on a small scale may be complete in as little as 10 to 15 min....
Liquid sodium is used as a heat transfer fluid in sodium-cooled fast reactors[73] because it has the high thermal conductivity and low neutron absorption cross section required to achieve a high neutron flux in the reactor.[74] The high boiling point of sodium allows the reactor to operate a...
The Hall–Héroult process is still the basis for aluminum production. They discovered that molten aluminum was produced when an electric current was passed through a bath of molten cryolite (Na3AlF6) with dissolved alumina. The presence of cryolite in the Hall–Héroult process enables elec...
Periodate is an environmentally hazardous chemical with a high acute toxicity; the lethal dose 50 % (LD50) for sodium periodate is 58 mg/kg (mouse, intraperitoneal) (PubChem: sodium periodate, 2020), and the LD50 of reduced periodate (i.e., iodate) is 119 mg/kg (PubChem: Sodium iodate...