Carbonate phases

Fig. 1. Iron—carbon phase diagram, where a is the body-centered cubic (bcc) a-iron, y is the face-centered cubic y-iron, and Fe C is iron carbide(3 l)...

Fig. 1. Carbon-phase diagram where A, solvent-cataly2ed diamond growth B—G, diamond formation direcdy from graphite C, graphite formation from diamond, D, approximate region where formation of Lonsdaleite occurs from weU-ordered graphite crystals (7,8). To convert GPa to atm, multiply by...

The iron-carbon solid alloy which results from the solidification of non blastfurnace metal is saturated with carbon at the metal-slag temperature of about 2000 K, which is subsequendy refined by the oxidation of carbon to produce steel containing less than 1 wt% carbon, die level depending on the application. The first solid phases to separate from liquid steel at the eutectic temperature, 1408 K, are the (f.c.c) y-phase Austenite together with cementite, Fe3C, which has an orthorhombic sttiicture, and not die dieniiodynamically stable carbon phase which is to be expected from die equilibrium diagram. Cementite is thermodynamically unstable with respect to decomposition to h on and carbon from room temperature up to 1130 K... 

The austenite phase which can contain up to 1.7 wt% of carbon decomposes on cooling to yield a much more dilute solution of carbon in a-iroii (b.c.c), Fenite , together with cementite, again rather diaii the stable carbon phase, at temperatures below a solid state eutectoid at 1013 K (Figure 6.3). 

Figure 6.3 The iron-carbon phase diagram showing the alternative production of iron and cementite from the liquid alloy, which occurs in practice, to the equilibrium production of graphite...

Fig. 11.1. The left-hand part of the iron-carbon phase diagram. There ore five phases in the Fe-FejC system L, 5, y, or and Fe3C (see Table 1 1.1).

Figure A1.37 shows the iron-carbon phase diagram up to 6.7 wt% carbon (to the first intermetallic compound, FejC). Of all the phase diagrams you, as an engineer, will encounter, this is the most important. So much so that you simply have to learn the names of the phases, and the approximate regimes of composition and temperature they occupy. The phases are ...

The polymorphism of certain metals, iron the most important, was after centuries of study perceived to be the key to the hardening of steel. In the process of studying iron polymorphism, several decades were devoted to a red herring, as it proved this was the P-iron controversy. P-iron was for a long time regarded as a phase distinct from at-iron (Smith 1965) but eventually found to be merely the ferromagnetic form of ot-iron thus the supposed transition from P to a-iron was simply the Curie temperature, p-iron has disappeared from the iron-carbon phase diagram and all transformations are between a and y. 

Cast irons, although common, are in fact quite complex alloys. The iron-carbon phase diagram exhibits a eutectic reaction at 1 420 K and 4-3 wt.<7oC see Fig. 20.44). One product of this eutectic reaction is always austenite however, depending on the cooling rate and the composition of the alloy, the other product may be cementite or graphite. The graphite may be in the form of flakes which are all interconnected (although they appear separate on a... 

The main assumption in this model is that matrix carbonate in solution is the principle agent for alteration of carbonates in biological apatites. Although the liquid and solid carbonate phases differ isotopically (the latter is enriched by about 8%o relative to former, under equilibrium conditions), the isotopic relationship between phases is well-defined (Emrich et al. 1970) hence values obtained from solid are at least representative of the dissolved phase. As shown in the model in Fig. 5.3, isotopic contamination of... 

Superheated water at 100°-240 °C, with its obvious benefits of low cost and low toxicity, was proposed as a solvent for reversed-phase chromatography.59 Hydrophobic compounds such as parabens, sulfonamides, and barbiturates were separated rapidly on poly(styrene-divinyl benzene) and graphitic phases. Elution of simple aromatic compounds with acetonitrile-water heated at 30°-130 °C was studied on coupled colums of zirconia coated with polybutadiene and carbon.60 The retention order on the polybutadiene phase is essentially uncorrelated to that on the carbon phase, so adjusting the temperature of one of the columns allows the resolution of critical pairs of... 

The carbonate-bound trace elements are usually extracted by NaOAc-HOAc (Tessier et al., 1979 Hickey and Kittrick, 1984 Banin et. al., 1990 and Han et al., 1992) or by using chelating agents, such as EDTA (Sposito et al., 1982 Emmerich et al., 1982 Miller and Mcfee, 1983 Chang et al., 1984 Knudtsen and O Connor, 1987 McGrath and Cegarra, 1992). Generally, EDTA lacks the required specificity and selectivity for carbonate phase extractions and tends to extract metals from a number of soil components. 

The protocol involving NaOAc-HOAc at pH 5 was first proposed and used by Jackson (1958) to remove carbonates from calcareous soils to analyze soil cation exchange characteristics (Grossman and Millet, 1961). Other researchers used HOAc for the extraction of metals from sediments and soils (Nissenbaum, 1972 Mclaren and Crawford, 1973). Tessier et al. (1979) first used the NaOAc-HOAc solution at pH 5 to dissolve the carbonate fraction from sediments. Since then, the NaOAc-HOAc buffer has been widely used as a specific extractant for the carbonate phase in various media (Tessier et al., 1979 Hickey and Kittrick, 1984 Rapin et al., 1986 Mahan et al., 1987 Han et al., 1992 Clevenger, 1990 Banin et al., 1990). Despite its widespread use, this step is not free from difficulties, and further optimization is required in its application. Questions arise with regard to this step in the elemental extraction from noncalcareous soils, the dissolution capacity and dissolution rates imposed by the buffer at various pHs, and the possibility that different carbonate minerals may require different extraction protocols (Grossman and Millet, 1961 Tessier et al., 1979). 

The following sections summarize the studies on the dissolution technique for the carbonate fraction from arid and semi-arid soils with different amounts and types of carbonate minerals. In addition, the selectivity and effectivity of the NaOAc-HOAc extraction technique at varying pHs to extract the carbonate phase, and only the carbonate phase, from soils is examined (Han and Banin, 1995). 

Calcium can be used as an indicator for selective carbonate dissolution. Its concentration in the extracts is limited either by its content in the carbonate phase (at low pHs and/or low carbonate content of the soil) or by the acid capacity of the extracting solution (at higher pHs and/or higher carbonate content in the soil). The interplay of these factors is clearly shown in Fig. 4.2. 

The specificity of the NaOAc-HOAc solutions for the carbonate phase may be measured by other major elements released during extraction. For example, only limited attack of the alumosilicate components in the soil... 

US Pat. 5228701 Flexible graphite particles with an amorphous carbon phase at the surface. Greinke R.A., Howard R.A. UCAR Carbon Technology Corporation. 20.07.1993. 

Table 1 summarizes the catalysts physisorption properties, the MWCNTs yields and their maximum decomposition temperatures. MCM41 produces amorphous carbon phases with higher thermal stability. Some authors have obtained CNT using only the MCM41 as a template [11, 12] but the reaction was carrying out at higher temperatures and its CNT yield was lower than the one obtained with mesoporous catalyst containing metallic incorporation as in our work. 

For many hydrophilic compounds such as the alcohols, Kow is low and can be less than 1.0, resulting in negative values of log Kow. In such cases, care should be taken when using correlations developed for more hydrophobic chemicals since partitioning into biota or organic carbon phases may be primarily into aqueous rather than organic media. 

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