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From recording balances to thermogravimetric instruments and back

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Brief history of evolution of thermogravimetry (TG) and of recording balances (RB) is provided. The recent emergence of new applications of TG instruments: catalysis, reactive analytical TG, making or modifying materials (high-temperature gas–solid reactions, chemical vapor deposition and infiltration, carburization, nitridation), is addressed to attention of researchers and TG manufacturers. Procedures enabling TG in demanding environments: vacuum, corrosive gases or contaminating fumes and/or condensable vapors, are discussed. New business opportunities for TG manufacturers, postulating making available flexible, research-oriented TG instruments, are balanced with suggested organizational changes in the thermoanalytical community that would ease the manufacturers’ burden of advanced application problems. The history of RB and TG is presented as a background for the desired improvements in instrumentation.

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The results were developed within the CENTEM project, Reg. no. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0088 that is co-funded from the ERDF within the OP RDI program of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

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    Jaroslav Sestak

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Czarnecki, J., Sestak, J. From recording balances to thermogravimetric instruments and back. J Therm Anal Calorim 120, 157–166 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-4385-z

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