Temperature dependence local temperatures

The coefficient of friction may also depend on the relative velocity of the two surfaces. This will, for example, affect the local temperature, the extent... 

This is essentially a corrosion reaction involving anodic metal dissolution where the conjugate reaction is the hydrogen (qv) evolution process. Hence, the rate depends on temperature, concentration of acid, inhibiting agents, nature of the surface oxide film, etc. Unless the metal chloride is insoluble in aqueous solution eg, Ag or Hg ", the reaction products are removed from the metal or alloy surface by dissolution. The extent of removal is controUed by the local hydrodynamic conditions. 

Equation-of-State Approach Although the gamma/phi approach to X- E is in principle generally applicable to systems comprised of subcritical species, in practice it has found use primarily where pressures are no more than a few bars. Moreover, it is most satisfactoiy for correlation of constant-temperature data. A temperature dependence for the parameters in expressions for is included only for the local-composition equations, and it is at best only approximate. 

The heat flow density q of a material depends on the local temperature gradient, according to Fourier s law ... 

A celebrated derivation of the temperature dependence of the mobility within the hopping model was made by Miller and Abrahams 22. They first evaluated the hopping rate y,y, that is the probability that an electron at site i jumps to site j. Their evaluation was made in the case of a lightly doped semiconductor at a very low temperature. The localized states are shallow impurity levels their energy stands in a narrow range, so that even at low temperatures, an electron at one site can easily find a phonon to jump to the nearest site. The hopping rate is given by... 

Besides its temperature dependence, hopping transport is also characterized by an electric field-dependent mobility. This dependence becomes measurable at high field (namely, for a field in excess of ca. 10d V/cm). Such a behavior was first reported in 1970 in polyvinylcarbazole (PVK) [48. The phenomenon was explained through a Poole-ITenkel mechanism [49], in which the Coulomb potential near a charged localized level is modified by the applied field in such a way that the tunnel transfer rale between sites increases. The general dependence of the mobility is then given by Eq. (14.69)... 

In the search for a better approach, investigators realized that the ignition of a combustible material requires the initiation of exothermic chemical reactions such that the rate of heat generation exceeds the rate of energy loss from the ignition reaction zone. Once this condition is achieved, the reaction rates will continue to accelerate because of the exponential dependence of reaction rate on temperature. The basic problem is then one of critical reaction rates which are determined by local reactant concentrations and local temperatures. This approach is essentially an outgrowth of the bulk thermal-explosion theory reported by Fra nk-Kamenetskii (F2). 

Fig. 14. Comparison of the VTMCD spectra ( 1.6 K and 6 T) of the valence-delocalized S = 9/2 [Fe2S2] cluster in the aUtEdine form of the C60S mutemt of C. pasteurianum 2Fe Fd with those of the [ZnFesSJ Emd [Fe3S4] clusters in P. furiosus Fd. Magnetization and temperature dependence studies show that the bands marked with an asterisk in the valence-delocEdized S = 9/2 [Fe2S2] spectra result from a valence-localized S = 1/2 component.

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