ferrous sulfide

A black to brown sulfide of iron, FeS, used in making hydrogen sulfide and in ceramics.

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It is during this process that ferrous sulfide or 'black water' is formed.

UAQ denies "rotten egg" smell in water

Polyacrylamide polymers (PAMs) with different functional groups exhibited depressing ability for ferrous sulfide minerals such as pyrite [4].

Flotation Behavior of Complex Sulfide Ores in the Presence of Biodegradable Polymeric Depressants

It is known that the common scaling of oil pipeline is calcareous carbonic, calcium sulfate, barium sulfate, strontium sulfate, also including corrosion products (ferrous sulfide, ferrous sulfate) and precipitates which have high solubility, high content under certain conditions [4], which are mainly caused by the following four reasons.

Experimental study on the cause of inorganic scale formation in the water injection pipeline of Tarim oilfield

The solid residue of thermal processing contains in this case less sulfide sulfur, and the sulfur originates mainly from pyrite sulfur-formed ferrous sulfide, as it occurs also at thermal processing of dictyonema argillite.

Thermal processing of dictyonema argillite and kukersite oil shale: transformation and distribution of sulfur compounds in pilot-scale galoter process

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