Modern High Temperature Science : A Collection of Research Papers From Scientists, Post-Doctoral Associates, and Colleagues of Professor Leo Brewer in Celebration of His 65th Birthday

It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to honor our distinguished colleague, Professor Leo Brewer, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birth­ day, with this special volume of High Temperature Science. Leo and his wife, Rose, are personal friends of several generations of students and postdoctoral researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. Their concern and understanding has been important to many of us over the past forty years. Each paper in this volume has at least one author who was a gradu­ ate student or a postdoctoral researcher in Leo's laboratory at Berkeley. The variety of topics is indicative of the wide-ranging science done by Brewer-ites and by Leo Brewer himself. He has personally participated in the resolution of many of the classical problems of high-temperature science-from the heat of sublimation of graphite to the dissociation en­ ergy of nitrogen to the prediction of binary and ternary phase diagrams. He and his students have made major contributions to atomic and molec­ ular spectroscopy. He has made significant contributions to the develop­ ment of efficient systems for energy conversion and to ceramics. In addi­ tion to his research activities, Leo Brewer has been a long-time participant in the dynamic undergraduate teaching program of the Berkeley Chemistry Department. He has provided crucial insight for stu­ dents involved in those career-shaping experiences that one endures while acquiring the basics of inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry with that interwoven common bond of thermodynamics. Front Matter....Pages i-xv The Responsibility of High Temperature Scientists....Pages 1-30 Determination of the Dissociation Energies of Gaseous Iron Monoxide and Manganese Monoxide by the Mass Spectrometric Knudsen Cell Method....Pages 31-52 The Surface Diffusion of High Temperature Vapors in Porous Alumina....Pages 53-64 Electron Impact Spectroscopy of High Temperature Species....Pages 65-84 Energetics of Silicon Oxidation Reactions....Pages 85-107 Kinetics of Vaporization of Molten Selenium....Pages 109-133 Electron—Ion Collisions in High Temperature Plasmas....Pages 135-153 Absorption Spectra of Diphenylacetylene and 1,4-Diphenylbutadiyne Cations in Solid Argon....Pages 155-164 Study of the Disproportionation of Sodium Thiosulfate by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 165-170 Observations of Excited Metastable and Radiative States of He 2 , Ne 2 , and Ar 2 by Neutralized Ion-Beam Spectroscopy....Pages 171-179 ScNi and TiCo Molecules....Pages 181-191 Electronic Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic Studies of the Group IIA Metal—Water Photochemistry....Pages 193-199 Reactions of Iron Atoms and Iron Dimers with Methane, Ammonia, and Hydrogen Fluoride in Low Temperature Matrices....Pages 201-235 Second Law and Solution Structure....Pages 237-249 Diatomic Partition Functions from Classical and Semiclassical Phase Integrals....Pages 251-265 Surface/Interfacial Free Energies and the Surface Tension of Uranium Dioxide....Pages 267-287 Transpiration Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Liquid KCl and KOH Vaporization....Pages 289-301 A New Gaseous Iridium Oxide, Ir 2 O 3 ....Pages 303-332 Gibbs Free Energies of Formation for Intermetallic Compounds Involving Transition Elements, Lanthanides, and Actinides....Pages 333-364 Prediction of High Temperature Metallic Phase Diagrams....Pages 365-369 The Temperature—Composition Phase Diagram of the GeSe—GeTe System....Pages 371-379 Hydration and Dehydration of Calcium Oxide Powders Studied by Photoluminescence Spectroscopy....Pages 381-394 Reactions of Transition Metal Atoms with 2-Nitropropane....Pages 395-408 A Predictive Procedure for Vapor Pressure....Pages 409-416 Empirical Calculations of Molecular Properties....Pages 417-425 Back Matter....Pages 427-443 ....Pages 445-456