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A Study Of The Dissolution Of Zr-O Alloys In Hydrofluoric Acid, Wayne Gilbert Custead

Doctoral Dissertations

"The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain and explain, if possible, the effect of oxygen in the metal on the kinetics and electrochemistry of the reaction of zirconium in hydrofluoric acid solutions. This entailed the determination of the effect of oxygen on the dissolution rates, activation energies, dissolution potentials, and difference effect for zirconium in hydrofluoric acid and hydrofluoric-hydrochloric acid mixtures.

The alpha-phase solid solutions of oxygen and zirconium were synthesized by the powder-metallurgy technique. Both the alloy analysis and dissolution rates were obtained by the gas evolution method according to the reaction:

ZrO_x + 4HF → ZrF …

Lattice Parameters, Densities And Imperfections In Indium And Indium-Cadmium Alloys Rich In Indium, Paluri Bhimeswara Rao

Doctoral Dissertations

"An investigation of perfection of the structure of the indium-cadmium system was suggested by the interesting properties of indium and its cadmium alloys. The lattice of indium, though tetragonal, may be considered as distorted cubic, its axial ratio being 1.0767 at 20°C. Furthermore earlier studies have revealed a transformation of the tetragonal structure to cubic in the presence of cadmium.

To determine the perfection or soundness of the indium and indium-cadmium alloys rich in indium, pure indium (99.999 per cent purity) and eight samples of the indium-cadmium alloys ranging in composition from 2.977 to 10.015 per cent by weight of …