LIQUID METALS AS HEAT CARRIERS

Abstract

IN CONNECTION WITH THE KNOWN PRESENCE OF Na2O in liquid sodium, which is often employed as a heat carrier, the possibility of electrolytic transfer of oxygen in the medium arises. This article describes an experimental check on this phenomenon conducted by the dc polarization method; the experiments were run at 300 C. An accumulation of transferred oxygen was actually determined in the anodic part of the molten metal. The findings confirmed the initial assumption that transfer is caused by O(--) ions, which originate from the strongly polarized molecule of Na2O and which are probably enclosed into a solvate-type envelope of Na(+) ions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1961
Accession Number
AD0257918

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Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Inventions
  • Liquid Metals
  • Liquids
  • Molecules
  • Polarization
  • Probability
  • Specifications

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Surface Engineering/Surface Coating Technology.