Triple point temperature

Schick s work includes the study of borides, carbides, nitrides, and oxides of some elements in Groups IIA, IIIB, IVA, IVB, VB, VIIB, and VIII as well as selected rare earths and actinides. As far as possible, the tables have been made compatible with the JANAF tables. Among the subjects treated are phase diagrams, heat capacities, enthalpies, entropies, enthalpies of phase transformation, formation, and reaction, melting temperatures, triple points, free energies of formation, vapour pressures, compositions of vapour species, ionization and appearance potentials, e.m.f. of cells, and enthalpies of solution and dilution. Volume 1 summarizes the techniques used to analyse data and cites the data analysed, and Volume 2 gives tables of values produced by this study. 

Melting point Triple point temperature Triple point pressure Vapor pressure (21.1°C) Absolute density (25°C, 1 atm) Relative density (25°C, 1 atm) Critieal temperature Critieal pressure Latent heat of fusion (-65.7°C)... 

Equations (2) and (3) are physically meaningful only in the temperature range bounded by the triple-point temperature and the critical temperature. Nevertheless, it is often useful to extrapolate these equations either to lower or, more often, to higher temperatures. In this monograph we have extrapolated the function F [Equation (3)] to a reduced temperature of nearly 2. We do not recommend further extrapolation. For highly supercritical components it is better to use the unsymmetric normalization for activity coefficients as indicated in Chapter 2 and as discussed further in a later section of this chapter. 

Thermal conductivity is expressed in W/(m K) and measures the ease in which heat is transmitted through a thin layer of material. Conductivity of liquids, written as A, decreases in an essentially linear manner between the triple point and the boiling point temperatures. Beyond a reduced temperature of 0.8, the relationship is not at all linear. For estimation of conductivity we will distinguish two cases < )... 

At a given temperature and pressure, a pure compound can exist in one, two or three states. The compound exists at three different states at the triple point and at two different states along the curves of vaporization, freezing and sublimation. Refer to Figure 4.6. 

Triple point temperature K Heat of fusion kJ/lc Heat of vaporization kJ/kg Liquid conductivity atr, W / (m-K) Liquid conductivity AtT W/(m-I0 Temperature Ti K Temperature h K... 

Triple point temperature Heat of fusion Heat of vaporization Liquid conductivity at r, Liquid conductivity at Temperature Tx Temperature Tz... 

Triple point Heat of Heat of Liquid liquid Temperature Temperature... 

To understand the conditions which control sublimation, it is necessary to study the solid - liquid - vapour equilibria. In Fig. 1,19, 1 (compare Fig. 1,10, 1) the curve T IF is the vapour pressure curve of the liquid (i.e., it represents the conditions of equilibrium, temperature and pressure, for a system of liquid and vapour), and TS is the vapour pressure curve of the solid (i.e., the conditions under which the vapour and solid are in equili-hrium). The two curves intersect at T at this point, known as the triple point, solid, liquid and vapour coexist. The curve TV represents the... 

The normal melting point of a substance is the temperature at which solid and hquid are in equilibrium at atmospheric pressure. At the triple point, the pressure is the equilibrium vapour pressure of the system (solid liquid - vapour) and the temperature differs from the melting point. The difference is, however, quite small—usually only a fraction of a degree—since the line TV departs only slightly from the vertical within reasonable ranges of pressure. 

It is clear that if the vapour at a pressure below the triple point is reduced sufficiently in temperature, it will condense directly to the solid form, or, sublimation will ensue. In order that a solid may pass directly... 

For most practical purposes the temperature and pressure at the triple point may be regarded as not differing appreciably from the melting point and the vapour pressure at the melting point respectively. 

Temperature kelvin K Defined as the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. 

The ultimate definition of thermodynamic temperature is in terms of pV (pressure X volume) in a gas thermometer extrapolated to low pressure. The kelvin (K), the unit of thermodynamic temperature, is defined by specifying the temperature of one fixed point on the scale—the triple point... 

Defining fixed points of the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90). Except for the triple points, the assigned values of temperature are for equilibrium states at a pressure of one standard atmosphere (101 325 Pa). 

Revised material in Section 5 includes an extensive tabulation of binary and ternary azeotropes comprising approximately 850 entries. Over 975 compounds have values listed for viscosity, dielectric constant, dipole moment, and surface tension. Whenever possible, data for viscosity and dielectric constant are provided at two temperatures to permit interpolation for intermediate temperatures and also to permit limited extrapolation of the data. The dipole moments are often listed for different physical states. Values for surface tension can be calculated over a range of temperatures from two constants that can be fitted into a linear equation. Also extensively revised and expanded are the properties of combustible mixtures in air. A table of triple points has been added. 

The working temperature, 77 K, is well below the triple point of krypton, 116 K, but if the solid is taken as the reference state the isotherm shows an unusually sharp upward turn at the high-pressure end. The usual practice, following Beebe, is therefore to take p° as the saturation vapour pressure of the supereooled liquid (p° = 2-49 Torr at 77-35 K and 27-5 Torr at 90-2 K). 

When the sample is a solid, a separation of the analyte and interferent by sublimation may be possible. The sample is heated at a temperature and pressure below its triple point where the solid vaporizes without passing through the liquid state. The vapor is then condensed to recover the purified solid. A good example of the use of sublimation is in the isolation of amino acids from fossil mohusk shells and deep-sea sediments. ... 

In addition to H2, D2, and molecular tritium [100028-17-8] the following isotopic mixtures exist HD [13983-20-5] HT [14885-60-0] and DT [14885-61-1]. Table 5 Hsts the vapor pressures of normal H2, D2, and T2 at the respective boiling points and triple points. As the molecular weight of the isotope increases, the triple point and boiling point temperatures also increase. Other physical constants also differ for the heavy isotopes. A 98% ortho—25/q deuterium mixture (the low temperature form) has the following critical properties = 1.650 MPa(16.28 atm), = 38.26 K, 17 = 60.3 cm/mol3... 

Temperature. Temperature maybe measured on an absolute or relative scale. The two most common relative scales are the Celsius and the Fahrenheit scales. The Celsius scale is defined as 0°C at the freezing point (triple point) of water and 100°C at the boihng point. The Fahrenheit scale is arbitrarily defined by assigning it a temperature of 32 degrees at the freezing point of water and 212°F at the boihng point of water (see Temperature measurements). 

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