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Methods and Results of an Experimental Determination of the Catalytic Activity of Materials at High Temperatures

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Methods of experimental determination of the rate constants of heterogeneous catalytic recombination of nitrogen and oxygen atoms in dissociated subsonic nitrogen and air flows generated by a high-frequency inductive plasmatron are discussed. Together with the values of the probability of heterogeneous recombination γ used in the literature, the rate constant of the elementary process of nitrogen atomic recombination is determined in accordance with the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism.

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Vlasov, A.V., Zalogin, G.N., Zemlyanskii, B.A. et al. Methods and Results of an Experimental Determination of the Catalytic Activity of Materials at High Temperatures. Fluid Dynamics 38, 815–825 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:FLUI.0000007843.88701.bb

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