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Overview Of Oxygen For Energy

By Lucia Weeks


In order to produce smaller amounts of oxygen, O2 from the air by adsorption of other gases can be separated. These air flows through molecular sieves. In this case, nitrogen and carbon dioxide are adsorbed and only O2 and argon pass through. This is used in O2 concentrator mainly used medically (oxygen for energy).

Almost all living organisms need O2 to live (typically give plants during photosynthesis but more O2 from than they consume). You see him mostly by breathing in air, or by absorption of water (dissolved oxygen). In high concentrations, however, it is toxic to most living things.The metastable, high-energy and reactive allotrope of three O2 atoms (O3) is called ozone. Atomic oxygen, ie O2 in form of free, single O2 atoms, is stable before only under extreme conditions, such as in vacuum of space or in hot stellar atmospheres. However, it has a significant meaning as a reactive intermediate in many reactions of atmospheric chemistry.

From the Stone Age to Middle Ages, the fire to humans was a phenomenon which has been accepted as a gift from heaven. About the nature of fire caused by the different conceptions natural philosophers of antiquity to alchemist. The fire was seen as an essential ingredient of Earth. In 17th century the notion of a "light mysterious substance" was born. This phlogiston would escape from the burning fuel, heat was understood as a substance. The German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele conducted experiments. When heating manganese dioxide (manganese dioxide) or potassium permanganate with concentrated sulfuric acid (vitriol) he gave a colorless gas.

O2 is slightly soluble in water. The solubility depends on the pressure and the temperature. It increases with decreasing temperature and increasing pressure. At 0 degrees C and an O2 partial pressure of air of 212 hPa dissolve in pure water 14.16 mg / l oxygen. In oxygen-gas discharge Spectrum, the molecular orbitals of O2 are stimulated to emit light. The operating conditions are a pressure of 5-10 mbar, a high voltage of 1.8 kV, a current of 18 mA and a frequency of 35 kHz. During the recombination of ionized gas molecules, the characteristic color spectrum is emitted. In this case, a small part, caused reversibly formed by the supply of energy ozone.

The binding and the properties of O2 molecule can be well explained by the molecular orbital model. The s and p atomic orbitals of individual atoms are assembled to form bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals. The 1s and 2s orbitals of O2 atoms are each to . Sigma.. Sub. S and . Sigma.. Sub. S - bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals.

Since these orbitals are completely filled with electrons, they do not contribute to binding. From the 2p orbitals are a total of six molecular orbitals with different energy level. The orbitals have this same energy. Electrons are distributed in molecular orbitals, it comes to following breakdown of eight p-electrons. These two valence electrons determine the properties of O2 molecule. O2 has allowed a total of three and energetically accessible quantum states for the distribution of these electrons.

Occupation of energy levels of molecular orbitals of O2 in ground and excited states. In ground state the spins of two valence electrons of Hund's rule are arranged in parallel in obedience. It is a triplet state with the term symbol 3g. It is the state with the lowest energy. Through the two unpaired electrons, the two orbitals are half occupied. This caused some characteristic properties, such as the diradical character and the paramagnetism of O2 molecule.

Usually takes O2 in its compounds, and in earth before. In earth's crust almost all minerals and rocks are so well oxygenated water next. Among the most important minerals include oxygen-containing silicates such as feldspars, mica and Olivine, carbonates such as calcium carbonate in limestone and oxides such as silica as quartz.




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