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Title: | Kinetics of Thermal Ionization of Alkali Metals in Flames |
Authors: | Hayhurst, A N Telford, N R |
Keywords: | Chemistry Kinetics Thermal Ionization Alkali Metals Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I |
Issue Date: | 1972 |
Publisher: | Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (2) |
Abstract: | The rate of ionization of alkali metal atoms M in flames of H2+ O2+ N2 has been measured using a quadrupole mass spectrometer to determine concentrations of each ion in a flame. The results confirm that the atoms ionize by collisions with flame gas molecules X in M + X → M++ e–+ X. The measured activation energy is, within experimental error, the ionization potential of the alkali metal and the associated cross-sections πσ2 are anomalously large, being similar for each metal and in the range 2.5 ± 1.1 × 10–16 m2. These cross-sections are in excellent agreement with Kelly and Padley's values and are discussed in terms of both a “ladder-climbing” excitation mechanism and a process with an ionic complex as intermediate. |
URI: | http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17203 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles (before-1995) |
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