Self activation energy

Activated chemisorption The adsorption rate varies with temperature and with self-activation energy. It follows the Arrhenius equation. 

Phosphors usually contain activator ions in addition to the host material. These ions are dehberately added in the proper proportion during the synthesis. The activators and their surrounding ions form the active optical centers. Table 1 Hsts some commonly used activator ions. Some soflds, made up of complexes such as calcium tungstate [7790-75-2] CaWO, are self-activated. Also in many photolurninescence phosphors, the primary activator does not efficiently absorb the exciting radiation and a second impurity ion is introduced known as the sensitizer. The sensitizer, which is an activator ion itself, absorbs the exciting radiation and transfers this energy to the primary activator. 

The ESR spectrum of the pyridazine radical anion, generated by the action of sodium or potassium, has been reported, and oxidation of 6-hydroxypyridazin-3(2//)-one with cerium(IV) sulfate in sulfuric acid results in an intense ESR spectrum (79TL2821). The self-diffusion coefficient and activation energy, the half-wave potential (-2.16 eV) magnetic susceptibility and room temperature fluorescence in-solution (Amax = 23 800cm life time 2.6 X 10 s) are reported. 

Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) The ARC can provide extremely useful and valuable data. This equipment determines the self-heating rate of a chemical under near-adiabatic conditions. It usu-aUy gives a conservative estimate of the conditions for and consequences of a runaway reaction. Pressure and rate data from the ARC may sometimes be used for pressure vessel emergency relief design. Activation energy, heat of reaction, and approximate reaction order can usually be determined. For multiphase reactions, agitation can be provided. 

Figure 12-11. Self-heat rate analysis. ARC data are shown along with a fitted model obtained by assuming the following kinetic parameters reaction order = 1, activation energy = 31.08 kcal/mol, and frequency factor = 2.31 El 2 min ...

Following the general trend of looldng for a molecular description of the properties of matter, self-diffusion in liquids has become a key quantity for interpretation and modeling of transport in liquids [5]. Self-diffusion coefficients can be combined with other data, such as viscosities, electrical conductivities, densities, etc., in order to evaluate and improve solvodynamic models such as the Stokes-Einstein type [6-9]. From temperature-dependent measurements, activation energies can be calculated by the Arrhenius or the Vogel-Tamman-Fulcher equation (VTF), in order to evaluate models that treat the diffusion process similarly to diffusion in the solid state with jump or hole models [1, 2, 7]. 

Benson [499] and Livingstone [500] considered the influence of experimental accuracy on measured rate and temperature coefficients. To measure the rate coefficient to 0.1%, the relative errors in each ctj value must be <0.1% and the reaction interval should be at least 50%. Temperature control to achieve this level of precision must be 0.003% or 0.01 K at 300 K. For temperature control to 1 K, the minimum error in the rate coefficient is 5% and in the activation energy, measured over a 20 K interval, is 10%. No allowance is included in these calculations for additional factors such as self-heating or cooling. 

Self-Test 13.12B The rate of a reaction increased from 3.00 mol-I. 1-s 1 to 4.35 mol-L -s 1 when the temperature was raised from 18°C to 30.°C. What is the activation energy of the reaction ... 

We conclude with a consideration of a few other cobalt self-exchange reactions. The reaction in Eq. (9.33) is faster than that involving the ammine complexes (Eq. 9.30) because the water is a weaker-field ligand than ammonia. Thus, the activation energy for the formation of the electronically excited states is lower, as is the change in Co-ligand distances in the two oxidation states. 

Ferrocen-l,l -diylbismetallacycles are conceptually attractive for the development of bimetal-catalyzed processes for one particular reason the distance between the reactive centers in a coordinated electrophile and a coordinated nucleophile is self-adjustable for specific tasks, because the activation energy for Cp ligand rotation is very low. In 2008, Peters and Jautze reported the application of the bis-palladacycle complex 56a to the enantioselective conjugate addition of a-cyanoacetates to enones (Fig. 31) [74—76] based on the idea that a soft bimetallic complex capable of simultaneously activating both Michael donor and acceptor would not only lead to superior catalytic activity, but also to an enhanced level of stereocontrol due to a highly organized transition state [77]. An a-cyanoacetate should be activated by enolization promoted by coordination of the nitrile moiety to one Pd(II)-center, while the enone should be activated as an electrophile by coordination of the olefinic double bond to the carbophilic Lewis acid [78],... 

The activation energy can be determined from the gradient of a plot of In D versus 1 IT (Fig. 5.19). Such graphs are known as Arrhenius plots. Diffusion coefficients found in the literature are usually expressed in terms of the Arrhenius equation D0 and Ea values. Some representative values for self-diffusion coefficients are given in Table 5.2. 

The fraction of vacancies in a crystal of NaCl, riy/N due to a population of Schottky defects, is 5 x 10-5 at 1000 K. In a diffusion experiment at this temperature, the activation energy for self-diffusion of Na was found to be 173.2 kJ mol-1. Determine the potential barrier that the diffusing ions have to surmount. 

Polymerizing, Decomposing, and Rearranging Substances Most of these substances are stable under normal conditions or with an added inhibitor, but can energetically self-react with the input of thermal, mechanical, or other form of energy sufficient to overcome its activation energy barrier (see Sec. 4, Reaction Kinetics, Reactor Design, and Thermodynamics). The rate of self-reaction can vary from imperceptibly slow to violently explosive, and is likely to accelerate if the reaction is exothermic or self-catalytic. 

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