Hydrogen Debye temperature

The discovery of a transition which we identify with this has been reported by Simon, Mendelssohn, and Ruhemann,16 who measured the heat capacity of hydrogen with nA = 1/2 down to 3°K. They found that the heat capacity, after following the Debye curve down to about 11°K, rose at lower temperatures, having the value 0.4 cal/deg., 25 times that of the Debye function, at 3°K. The observed entropy of transition down to 3°K, at which the transition is not completed, was found to be about 0.5 E.U. That predicted by Eq. (15) for the transition is 2.47 E.U. 

The approach of research institutes AGLARG [9] was used for an operative estimation of gas sorption capacity for carbon sorbents. According to it micropore volume and the specific surface area have been chosen as determining parameters. To obtain the function approximating dependence of hydrogen sorption capacity on carbon materials from value of a specific surface area (at pressure 0.1 MPa and temperature 77 K), we used our experimental data (Table 1) and an experimental database (Table 2) of group of institutes - Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Debye Institute, Utrecht University [10],... 

At low temperatures the hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen-palladium system would be expected to form a Debye sublattice, but at higher temperatures when the well known, but little understood, diffusion processes set in, heat capacities characteristic of hindered translation for the hydrogen atoms might be expected. Rapid cooling of a mobile system of hydrogen atoms would be expected to produce nonequilibrium conditions. Experimentally the system does behave somewhat as expected, but some unusual consequences of this situation became evident only after the experimental observations. 

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