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High-Temperature Oxidation of Zinc Sulphide

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IN earlier work1 the rate of oxidation of the 110 faces of zinc sulphide was measured by use of a thermobalance. Below 830° C. the rate was found to be ‘chemically controlled’, being an exponential function of temperature and largely independent of the thickness of the product layer of zinc oxide. Above 830° C. there were indications of the onset of a ‘diffusion control’, depending on the diffusion of the oxygen up to the zinc sulphide interface through the layer of porous oxide.

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  1. Department of Chemical Technology, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt College,

    GORDON S. G. BEVERIDGE & KENNETH G. DENBIGH

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BEVERIDGE, G., DENBIGH, K. High-Temperature Oxidation of Zinc Sulphide. Nature 183, 106–107 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183106a0

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