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The Use of Oxygen Isotopic Labeling to Understand Oxidation Mechanisms

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Isotopic labeling is a powerful tool to evaluatetransport and reaction mechanisms of oxidation. Theevaluation can answer the essential question inhigh-temperature oxidation: which is the dominatingmigrating species? Isotopic labeling can be used in twodifferent ways: analysis of the gas phase and analysisof the oxide formed. By using as-reported,depth-profiling data from the literature, the oxygenexchange was evaluated and compared with oxide growth.Gas-phase analysis was used to evaluate theoxygen-exchange reactions, O2 ↔7H2O, O2 ↔ O2, andO2 ↔ MexOy, inrelation to the oxidation of Si and Fe-Cr-Al alloys in ~10 mbar isotopically-labeledH2O/O2-gas mixtures at 900 to 950°C.The time dependence of the rate of the oxygen exchangewas used to explain the deviation from parabolicoxidation kinetics. The results of this study suggest that atomic oxygen is themigrating species during the oxidation of Si andalumina-forming alloys.

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Akermark, T. The Use of Oxygen Isotopic Labeling to Understand Oxidation Mechanisms. Oxidation of Metals 50, 167–188 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018832103466

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