Radiolysis of aqueous solutions of sodium sulfides. Chapter 8

To study the radiolysis of the aqueous solutions of sodium sulphide, use was made of infrared spectroscopy, mass-spectrometry and iodometric titration. During the γ-irradiation of the aqueous solutions of sodium sulphide one can observe the appearance of various stable sulphur-containing products. Data are discussed on the radiolysis in a nitrous environment, on oxygen bubbling, at varying radiation doses, pH and temperature values. Consideration is also given to the low-temperature radiolysis of the aqueous solutions of sodium sulphide by the EPR method. In the radiolysis of both crystalline and glassy solutions of Na2S there appear an ion-radical S- and a radical SO2-