Carbon thermodynamics

When one considers the potential high-energy release on rupture of a carborane unit, together with the thermodynamic stability of combustion products, it is hardly surprising that there is a body of literature that reports on the use of carbo-ranes within propellant compositions. Their use in energetic applications is to be expected when the enthalpy of formation (AH/) data for the products of combustion for boron are compared to those of carbon. Thermodynamic data for the enthalpy of formation of o-carborane and of typical boron and carbon combustion products is shown in Table 4. Measurements of the standard enthalpy of combustion32 for crystalline samples of ortho-carborane show that complete combustion is a highly exothermic reaction, AH = — 8994 KJmol. ... 

Chapter 3 Energetics of Gas Adsorption by Carbons Thermodynamic Quantities... 

Chiang, H.L., Huang, C.P., and Chiang, P.C. (2002). The adsorption of benzene and methylethylketone onto activated carbon thermodynamic aspects. Chemo-sphere, 46, 143-52. 

The National Bureau of Standards Report 6928 lists the properties of compounds of lithium, beryllium, magnesium, and aluminium with hydrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, nitrogen, and carbon. Thermodynamic functions for the ideal gases, solids, and liquids are tabulated (e.g. values of free energy functions and enthalpy functions , entropy, and heat capacity). 

Tetrose (Section 27.2) A monosaccharide containing four carbons. Thermodynamic enolate (Section 23.4) The enolate that is lower in energy—generally the more substituted enolate. 

---