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When a metal sample is heated, eleotrons are emitted from the surfaee when the themial energy of the eleotrons, kT, beoomes siifiBoient to overoome the work fiinotion 4) [53]. The probability of this eleetron emission depends on work fiinotion (fr and temperature T as expressed in the Riohardson-Diislmian equation ... 

Hardness of the aimealed metals covers a wide range. Rhodium (up to 40%), iridium (up to 30%), and mthenium (up to 10%) are often used to harden platinum and palladium whose intrinsic hardness and tensile strength are too low for many intended appHcations. Many of the properties of rhodium and indium. Group 9 metals, are intermediate between those of Group 8 and Group 10. The mechanical and many other properties of the PGMs depend on the physical form, history, and purity of a particular metal sample. For example, electrodeposited platinum is much harder than wrought metal. 

The predorninant method for the analysis of alurninum-base alloys is spark source emission spectroscopy. SoHd metal samples are sparked direcdy, simultaneously eroding the metal surface, vaporizing the metal, and exciting the atomic vapor to emit light ia proportion to the amount of material present. Standard spark emission analytical techniques are described in ASTM ElOl, E607, E1251 and E716 (36). A wide variety of weU-characterized soHd reference materials are available from major aluminum producers for instmment caUbration. 

The methods of choice for beryUium oxide in beryUium metal are inert gas fusion and fast neutron activation. In the inert gas fusion technique, the sample is fused with nickel metal in a graphite cmcible under a stream of helium or argon. BeryUium oxide is reduced, and the evolved carbon monoxide is measured by infrared absorption spectrometry. BeryUium nitride decomposes under the same fusion conditions and may be determined by measurement of the evolved nitrogen. Oxygen may also be determined by activation with 14 MeV neutrons (20). The only significant interferents in the neutron activation technique are fluorine and boron, which are seldom encountered in beryUium metal samples. 

Figure 6.2 The increase in electrical conductivity when a metal sample is heated to a high temperature and then quenched to room temperature, arising from the introduction of vacant sites at high temperature...

The diffusion coefficients of cations in metal oxides are usually measured through the use of radioactive isotopes. Because of the friable nature of oxides it is exU emely difficult to use the sectioning technique employed for metal samples. The need for this can be avoided by the application of radioisotopes which emit radiation having a well established absorption law in matter. Isotopes which emit y radiation are very useful when the cation has a relatively high diffusion coefficient because of the long-range peneU ation of y rays. The absorption law is... 

Manual sampling should be carried out by grounded personnel, preferably using grounded metal equipment such as a metal sample thief bonded to the tank via metal cord. A satisfactory alternative is to place one or more glass sample bottles in a grounded metal cage (5-S.4.2). 

The lack of a well-defined specular direction for polycrystalline metal samples decreases the signal levels by 10 —10, and restricts the symmetry information on adsorbates, but many studies using these substrates have proven useful for identifying adsorbates. Charging, beam broadening, and the high probability for excitation of phonon modes of the substrate relative to modes of the adsorbate make it more difficult to carry out adsorption studies on nonmetallic materials. But, this has been done previously for a number of metal oxides and compounds, and also semicon-... 

The condition of the test metal is important. Clean metal samples with uniform finishes are preferred. The accelerating effects of surface defects lead to deceptive results in samples. The ratio of the area of a defect to the total surface area of the metal is much higlier in a sample than in any metal in service. This is an indication of the inaccuracy of tests made on metals with improper finishes. The sample metal should have the same type of heat treatment as the metal to be used in service. Different heat treatments have different effects on corrosion. Heat treatment may improve or reduce the corrosion resistance of a metal in an unpredictable manner. For the purpose of selectivity, a metal stress corrosion test may be performed. General trends of the performance of a material can be obtained from such tests however, it is difficult to reproduce the stress that actually will occur during service. 

Gupta and his students have developed procedures for determining the elastic and plastic contributions to shock-deformed metals. The work explicitly recognizes that the metal sample is an inclusion in a host material which may act to cause local deformation unique to the particular host [83G01, 87G01]. 

Although it is required to refine the above condition I in actuality, this rather simple but impressive prediction seems to have much stimulated the experiments on the electrical-conductivity measurement and the related solid-state properties in spite of technological difficulties in purification of the CNT sample and in direct measurement of its electrical conductivity (see Chap. 10). For instance, for MWCNT, a direct conductivity measurement has proved the existence of metallic sample [7]. The electron spin resonance (ESR) (see Chap. 8) [8] and the C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) [9] measurements have also proved that MWCNT can show metallic property based on the Pauli susceptibility and Korringa-like relation, respectively. On the other hand, existence of semiconductive MWCNT sample has also been shown by the ESR measurement [ 10], For SWCNT, a combination of direct electrical conductivity and the ESR measurements has confirmed the metallic property of the sample employed therein [11]. More recently, bandgap values of several SWCNT... 

The electrons are treated as independent particles constrained to a three-dimensional box, treated here for simplicity as a cube of side L. The box contains the metallic sample. The potential U is infinite outside the box, and a constant Uq inside the box. We focus attention on a single electron whose electronic Schrodinger equation is... 

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Use Figure 17-11 to estimate the resistivities of two metal samples, one made of pure copper and the other of a copper-manganese alloy containing one atom of manganese for every one hundred copper atoms. Calculate the ratio of the cost due to power loss from wire of the impure material to the cost due to the power loss from wire of the pure material. 

For the preparation of samples for X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, lithium metaborate is the preferred flux because lithium does not give rise to interfering X-ray emissions. The fusion may be carried out in platinum crucibles or in crucibles made from specially prepared graphite these graphite crucibles can also be used for the vacuum fusion of metal samples for the analysis of occluded gases. 

Ia/Icu (/a = intensity of Ka for copper in the alloy Icu — corresponding intensity for pure copper) for alloys containing the following weight-fractions of copper 0.01 (0.0099) 0.04 (0.0373) 0.53 (0.504) 0.88 (0.867). This excellent agreement can be further improved by applying suitable corrections. There probably is no better way of analyzing metallic samples for which a point-to-point exploration on a minute scale is required. 

Indirect methods used can profit by the thermodynamic data of a particular metal-hydrogen system. The determination of the H/Me ratio after complete desorption of hydrogen from a sample, despite an apparent simplicity of the method, gives adequate results only when the bulk metal sample was entirely saturated with hydrogen, and that is a very rare case. The metal catalyst crystallites can be saturated in a nonuniform way, not through their whole thickness. The surface of this polycrystalline sample varies to such extent in its behavior toward interaction with hydrogen that hydride forms only in patches on its surface. A sample surface becomes a mosaique of /3-hydride and a-phase areas (85). 

FW total metals sampled from economizer outlet. 

Metal Sample Matrix Stripping Mode Working Electrode Reference... 

Equation (32) suffers from the same shortcomings as Eq. (27). In particular, d/dT must be known independently for the same metal sample as the one used as an electrode. Moreover, in view of the crystal-face specificity of ff=o, its temperature coefficient is also expected to depend on the crystallographic orientation. Being a differential quantity, dEa=JdT is an even more delicate experimental quantity than Eaa0 itself. 

Figure 5.18. Schematic representation of the density of states N(E) in the conduction band and of the definitions of work function d>, chemical potential of electrons p, electrochemical potential of electrons or Fermi level p, surface potential x> Galvani (or inner) potential

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