Vaporization Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Graphite Using the High Pressure Mass Spectrometer.

Abstract

A brief review of current studies of the vaporization of graphite is presented, followed by a detailed description of our own work. Apparatus improvements are described, which allow heating of all-graphite Knudsen cells to about 3300K in vacuum without significant heating of beam system walls or objectionable outgassing. A continuously operating vacuum viewport and automatic pyrometer system is described for temperature monitoring under rapid window darkening vaporization conditions. Preliminary equilibrium ion ratio measurements are presented for the species C1 - C7 at temperatures up to 3300K. Extensive experimental results are presented on the neutral time-of-flight behavior of both carbon and low temperature gaseous species, using both the Nuclide and the Bendix mass spectrometers. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0753713

Entities

People

  • Frank T. Greene
  • Jacob E. Beachey
  • Thomas A. Milne

Organizations

  • MRIGlobal

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Graphitic Materials
  • High Pressure
  • Instrumentation
  • Kinetics
  • Low Temperature
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Monitoring
  • Outgassing
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Spectrometers
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transition Temperature
  • Vaporization

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design