Metallic solutions and calorimetry

Noncontact modulation calorimetry of metallic liquids in low Earth orbit

Noncontact modulation calorimetry using electromagnetic heating and radiative heat loss under ultrahighvacuum conditions has been applied to levitated solid, liquid, and metastable liquid samples. This experiment requires a reduced gravity environment over an extended period of time and allows the measurement of several thermophysical properties, such as the enthalpy of fusion and crystallizati...

Scanning Calorimetry of Solutions in Toluene

The phase-separation phenomena observed in solutions of poly(2,6 dimethyl-1,4 phenylene oxide) in toluene have been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry. These measurements supplement the experimental evidence in favor of the concept that the phase transitions observed are crystallization and melting phenomena. The experiments suggest that two kinds of crystals can develop and that...

Separation of glass transition and crystallization in metallic glasses by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry

The glass transition behaviour of the four metallic glasses La55Al25Ni20 , Zn65Mg35, and Nd60Fe30Al10 and Zr30Y30Al15Ni25 has been studied by temperature-modulated di€ erential scanning calorimetry (MDSC). It is clearly demonstrated that the glass transition can be separated from crystallization by MDSC. Two glass transitions have been observed for Zn65Mg35, Nd60Fe30Al10 and Zr30Y30Al15Ni25. Ow...

Gravitational Calorimetry

I generalize the quasilocal formulation of thermodynamics of Brown and York to include dilaton theories of gravity as well as Abelian and Yang-Mills gauge matter fields with possible dilaton couplings. The resulting formulation is applicable to a large class of theories including two-dimensional toy models and the low energy limit of string theory as well as to many types of matter such as mass...

Reaction Calorimetry