1st Edition

High Temperature Properties and Thermal Decomposition of Inorganic Salts with Oxyanions

By Kurt H. Stern Copyright 2001

    Twenty years ago author Kurt Stern produced four monographs for the National Bureau of Standards on the high-temperature properties of inorganic salts containing oxyanions. Although relied upon by scientists and engineers around the world, these monographs have now become increasingly difficult to access and increasingly outdated.

    High Temperature Properties and Thermal Decomposition of Inorganic Salts with Oxyanions unifies, expands upon, and brings up-to-date those standard-setting documents. It offers both qualitative and quantitative information on the behavior and properties of approximately 300 compounds, complete with thermodynamic tables of decomposition equilibria and information regarding decomposition kinetics. For each class of compounds, an existence chart in the form of a periodic table tells you at a glance which compounds are known to exist, those whose existence is uncertain, and those about which nothing is known. Supplementary tables give information about phase transitions and densities in both solid and liquid phases.

    Within this single volume, the author provides a comprehensive, critical review of the high-temperature properties of all the major classes of inorganic salts with oxyanions. If you work with materials or processes that involve salts at elevated temperatures, you now have an authoritative resource that obviates the need to perform extensive literature searches, data evaluations, and thermodynamic calculations-and saves you time.

    INTRODUCTION
    General
    Equilibrium Calculations
    Phase Transitions
    Density
    Kinetics of Thermal Decomposition
    CARBONATES
    Introduction
    CO, CO2, and O2
    The Individual Carbonates
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    SULFITES
    General
    Individual Sulfites
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    SULFATES
    General
    Decomposition Equilibria
    Individual Sulfates
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    NITRITES AND NITRATES
    Gaseous Equilibria in the N-O System
    The Nitrites
    The Nitrates
    Individual Nitrites and Nitrates
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    OXYSALTS OF THE HALOGENS
    General
    Phase Transitions
    Density
    Chemistry of the Halogen-Oxysalts
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    OXYSALTS OF CHLORINE
    General
    Classes of Oxychlorine Salts
    Individual Salts
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    OXYSALTS OF BROMINE
    General
    Classes of Oxybromine Salts
    Individual Salts
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions
    OXYSALTS OF IODINE
    General
    Classes of Oxyiodine Salts
    Individual Salts
    References
    Tables
    Figure Captions

    Biography

    Kurt H. Stern