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A Study of Reaction Mechanisms by DSC and TG

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DSC is used to determine the temperatures at which cellulose undergoes decomposition reactions. TG is then used to determine the activation energies of these reactions, and the effect of potassium chloride upon these activation energies.

Extending the theories of the Brönsted salt effect beyond dilute liquid solutions to KC1 dispersed in cellulose, it is shown that activation energies are a function of the square root of the ionic strength, and that the KC1 exerts a positive salt effect. These findings support a proposed mechanism that one route for the thermal decomposition of cellulose is its dehydration through a carbonium ion intermediate to products.

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  1. Xavier College, St. Francis Xavier University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Donald F. Arseneau & J. J. J. Stanwick

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  1. Mettler Instrumente AG, Greifensee-Zürich, Switzerland

    H. G. Wiedemann

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Arseneau, D.F., Stanwick, J.J.J. (1972). A Study of Reaction Mechanisms by DSC and TG. In: Wiedemann, H.G. (eds) Thermal Analysis. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5775-8_28

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