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How is nascent oxygen produced?

Nascent oxygen is produced when a substance or compound is broken down, allowing the oxygen atoms to exist in a highly reactive and unstable state. This can occur through processes like electrolysis, decomposition of certain compounds, or reactions with ozone or certain catalysts.


What is the term for freshly generated atomic number 1 in reactive form?

The term for freshly generated atomic number 1 (hydrogen) in a reactive form is nascent hydrogen.


What is the Difference between nascent and molecular hydrogen?

Scientifically, nascent refers to a substance at the point at which it forms. In a chemical reaction, such as zinc reacting with sulphuric acid, individual hydrogen atoms will form but VERY quickly react with another atom to give H2 molecules. This is the only common situation in which atomic hydrogen exists, even if very fleetingly.


How do you make nascent iodine?

To make nascent iodine, iodine crystals are mixed with a solvent such as ethanol or purified water. The mixture is then allowed to sit and react for a period of time, creating a nascent form of iodine that is more bioavailable and easily absorbed by the body.


What reaction occurs when mixing calcium hypochlorite with water?

The reaction is as follows: Ca(OCl)2 + H2CO3 (carbonic acid in water) = CaCO3 + 2HOCL (hypochlorous acid) 2HOCL + organic matter = 2HCL + O2 (nascent or released oxygen) 2HCL + CaCO3 = CaCl2 + H20 + CO2 It is the nascent oxygen that actually carries out the oxidation / disinfection process.

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Is ozone a nascent oxygen?

No, ozone is not nascent oxygen. Ozone is triatomic form of oxygen atom.


How do you convert nascent oxygen into molecular oxygen?

I do not have a clue


When nitrous oxide is converted to nitrogen and oxygen what is the term used to describe the oxygen atoms formed?

nascent oxygen molecular oxygen product


How chlorine bleaches by oxidation?

Chlorine bleaches the organic compound by oxidation process.It reacts first in aqueous solution giving nascent oxygen then the nascent oxygen oxidize organic compound making it colourless.i.eH2O + cl2 gives 2Hcl + O (nascent oxygen)Organic compound + O (nascent oxygen) gives colourless organic compound


How is nascent oxygen produced?

Nascent oxygen is produced when a substance or compound is broken down, allowing the oxygen atoms to exist in a highly reactive and unstable state. This can occur through processes like electrolysis, decomposition of certain compounds, or reactions with ozone or certain catalysts.


What is added to oxygen to create ozone?

In order to create ozone oxygen is addded to nascent oxygen. Then ozone is formed.


What does the ozone layer breakdown along with oxygen?

The ozone layer is broken down by UV. It decomposes it into nascent oxygen and oxygen molecule.


What is ozone did not act as a filter?

Ozone is a tri-atomic form of oxygen. It acts as a filter to UV rays.Ozone is present in the stratosphere. It is a tri atomic form of nascent oxygen.


How many levels in oxygen?

oxygen is present everywhere in air,water etc. the type is o2 is gas o is nascent oxygen rest oxygen forms many compounds


Why can't you prepare ozone manually by combining oxygen and nascent oxygen?

Oxygen hangs around as the diatomic molecule O2 . Inferred from the question is that nascent oxygen is O1 (a single atom of oxygen) and can be used with the idea being to do this: O2 + O1 = O3. Chemistry would have to be taking the day off for this to happen. And chemistry doesn't take a day off. Oxygen is not a solo act. It is not monatomic. It's like this: 3O2 + energy = 2O3. The reaction is endothermic; energy needs to be put in to make it happen. The energy comes from UV photons in photolysis or from good old high voltage in corona discharge reactions. Ozone is unstable and spontaneously reverts to diatomic oxygen like this: 2O3 = 3O2. Ozone cannot be prepared "manually" using "nascent" oxygen because oxygen writes the terms and conditions under which it will live. It will not live as O1 and therefor will not be available to combine with 1O2 to form 1O3. "Nascent" oxygen is more likely to join with another O1, and make O2. Not that O2 + O -> O3 doesn't happen, it does occasionally, with the help of other "third parties". See the link below for a technical paper on the functionally similar production of ozone in air using electrons to form "nascent oxygen".


Ozone layer is formed by?

Ozone layer is formed by UV radiations. These UV rays decompose oxygen to 2 nascent oxygen which reacts with oxygen to form ozone.


How ozone layer is made?

The ozone is naturally made by UV radiations. These high energy rays decompose oxygen into nascent oxygen which reacts with oxygen to form ozone.