Studies on the High Temperature Oxidation of Molybdenum, Tungsten, Niobium, Tantalum, Titanium, and Zirconium

摘要

The purpose of these studies was twofold: (1) to extend and develop vacuum microbalance and electron diffraction methods for studying fast oxidation reactions of high temperature metals and solids under carefully controlled conditions of temperature, pressure, and gas flow; and (2) to determine the kinetics and mechanisms of oxidation of a number of high temperature metals and solids.