{"id":4517,"date":"2023-01-06T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:19:42","slug":"sodium-tetrafluoroborate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sodium-tetrafluoroborate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodium Tetrafluoroborate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The electrochemical ammonia synthesis is largely limited by the <strong>poor solubility of nitrogen (N2) <\/strong>in the aqueous electrolyte environment as well as the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have introduced a new <strong>electrolyte <\/strong>called (NaBF4), which not only acts as an N2 carrier in the medium but also works as a full-fledged \u201cco-catalyst\u201d along with active material transition metal-doped nanocarbon (MnN4) to deliver high-yield of ammonia (NH3) at absolutely ambient experimental conditions<\/li>\n<li>This new aqueous electrolyte can help make electrochemical ammonia synthesis more efficient will be useful for industries <strong>producing green energy or hydrogen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Sodium tetrafluoroborate (NaBF4)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a salt that forms colourless or white water-soluble rhombic crystals and is <strong>soluble in water<\/strong> but less soluble in organic solvents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is an Electrolyte?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An electrolyte is a substance that forms a solution that conducts electricity when dissolved in a polar solvent. Cations are positively charged ions and Anions are charged ions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Acids, bases, and salts are the most commonly known electrolytes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the role of sodium in human body?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The human body requires a small amount of sodium to conduct nerve impulses, contract and relax muscles, and maintain the proper balance of water and minerals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1888858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New electrolyte found can help better ammonia synthesis<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium Tetrafluoroborate  is a salt that forms colourless or white water-soluble rhombic crystals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}