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Heat of Combustion of Vitreous Carbon

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DISINTEGRATION of vitreous carbon exposed to potassium vapour is thought to result1 from the enhancement—by the formation of intercalation compounds—of stresses already present in the structure. Fischbach2 describes a model of vitreous carbon in which small crystallites of disordered graphite material are bonded by non-trigonal cross-links. It might be expected that such a structure would be reflected in a higher heat of combustion of the material.

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    J. B. LEWIS, R. MURDOCH & A. N. MOUL

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LEWIS, J., MURDOCH, R. & MOUL, A. Heat of Combustion of Vitreous Carbon. Nature 221, 1137–1138 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211137a0

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