In chloridizing roasting of zinc sulphide, the reaction occurs among salt, sulphur and oxygen, generating chlorine gas, which then reacts upon zinc sulphide, and there grows Zinc chloride. There are three forms of sulphur vapour, namely S
8, S
6, S
2. At high temperature almost all part if the vapour is in S
2 form, but at low temperature the larger part of it is in S
6, S
6 forms and the smaller part. is in S
2 form. In ordinary pressure, even at 500°-600°C, the considerably large part of the vapour is in S
2 form, so We may consider the vapour as in S
2 form. As the chlorine gas reacts upon the -sulphur vapour, We can not recognize the free chlorine in the roasted gas. In the chloridizing roasting of zinc sulphide, the mechanisms of reactions are as follows;
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