Vacuum Microbalance Techniques : Volume 8 Proceedings of the Wakefield Conference, June 12–13, 1969

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Vacuum Microbalance Techniques held at Wakefield, Massachusetts on June 12 and 13, 1969. The tenth anniversary of the first confer­ ence will be registered as this volume passes through the typeset­ ting and proofreading stages. The eight volumes that have spawned from this continuing series of conferences now contain a total of 125 papers. Thus, these volumes serve as a major repository of the world's literature on vacuum microbalance techniques. The Ninth and Tenth Conferences will be held in West Germany in June 1970 and in Texas in 1971. Each of the eight meetings has served as a forum where new developments in this rapidly advancing field can be presented and discussed constructively within a conference atmosphere of cordial informality. The interaction of the participants at the conferences has led to the first treatise on ultra mlcrogravtmetry;' edited by S. P. Wolsky and E. J. Zdanuk, with most of the fourteen chapters written by steady contributors to the volumes on Vacuum Micro­ balance Techniques. The number of research investigations and published works in which a vacuum microbalance is utilized con­ tinues to expandr apldly. f This is a direct result of several types of automatic recording balances that are now available commercial­ ly. 3 The Eighth Conference was held to bring together again re­ search scientists and engineers who exploit the measurement of mass as a means of studying physical and chemical phenomena. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Interpretation of Vacuum Microbalance Data Obtained During the High-Temperature Oxidation of Materials....Pages 1-16 The Simultaneous Use of Mass Spectrometer and Microbalance Techniques for the Carbon-Oxygen System....Pages 17-27 A System for the Determination of Oxidation—Reduction Kinetics in Nonstoichiometric Metal Oxides....Pages 29-41 An Automated Bakeable Quartz Fiber Vacuum Ultramicrobalance....Pages 43-53 Adsorption Studies with a Bakeable Quartz Automatic Recording Ultramicrobalance....Pages 55-72 The Effect of Thermal Gas Motion on Microbalance Measurements....Pages 73-95 Gravimetric Adsorption Studies of Hydrogen on Granular Metal Surfaces Using a Vacuum Microbalance....Pages 97-109 Gravimetric Measurement of the Molecular Area of Some Adsorbed Gases....Pages 111-119 Vapor Adsorption Studies on Low-Energy Solids....Pages 121-130 Momentum Artifacts in the Gravimetric Measurement of Rapid Desorption....Pages 131-139 On the Development of Electromagnetic Balances in Recent Years....Pages 141-145 Pressure of Light Used as Restoring Force on an Ultramicrobalance....Pages 147-153 Vacuum Microbalance Apparatus for Rapid Determination of Low-Temperature Vaporization Rates....Pages 155-172 Wireless Temperature Measurement of a Sample in Vacuum....Pages 173-182 Applications of the Quartz Crystal Resonator....Pages 183-200 Thermal Degradation of Piperazine Copolyamides....Pages 201-214 A Thermal Analysis System for Radioactive Materials....Pages 215-227 Thermal Degradation of an Anhydride-Cured Epoxy Resin by Laser Heating....Pages 229-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-251