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EXPERIMENTS carried out by Oza and Oza1 with silver and anhydrous strontium hyponitrites and dinitrogen tetroxide at 0°, 30° and 140° C. show the production, in the gas, of both nitrous oxide and nitrogen, which are among the thermal decomposition products of these hyponitrites. It appears, therefore, that these hyponitrites undergo fission into their normal decomposition products under the impact of the molecules of nitrogen tetroxide or dioxide. The oxide and the nitrite so formed then react with the nitrogen tetroxide or dioxide to yield their relevant products of the reaction, while the gaseous products of the primary fission remain unaltered and their presence is shown by analysis of the gas.
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OZA, T. Reactions of Hyponitrites and Nitrites. Nature 175, 385–386 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175385b0
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