Experience in developing ultrahigh capacity compressor stages

Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftyanoe Mashinostroenie, No. 2, pp. 4–7, February, 1992.     

Propagation of the Chain Explosive‐Decomposition Reaction in Silver Azide Crystals

The velocity of the chain explosivedecomposition reaction in silver azide whiskes has been measured (1500 m/sec). The measured velocity is identified as the propagation velocity of the diffusion front of holes generated in the course of explosive decomposition.     

Kinetics of redox processes in manganese oxides

The redox processes in ceramic and powder samples of α-Mn₂O₃ (kurnakite) and β-Mn₃O₄ (hausmannite) have been studied in the temperature range 20–1000°C. The results demonstrate that the conversion of α-Mn₂O₃ to β-Mn₃O₄ in the binary system Mn-O is essentially irreversible, even if there are nucleation centers in the form of the higher oxide α-Mn₂O₃ during the oxidation of hausmannite. It is shown that the high reactivity of hausmannite ground in a WC mill is not due to a mechanochemical effect. Grinding-induced contamination has a significant effect on the oxidation behavior of the system: the impurities incorporated into the sample during grinding in a mill favor complete (WC contamination) or partial (Fe contamination) conversion of hausmannite to kurnakite. Hausmannite contaminated with tungsten carbide oxidizes by a catalytic mechanism. In the case of Fe impurities, oxidation follows a solid-state mechanism, through the formation of restricted Fe_xMn_2?x O₃ solid solutions.     

Fe substitution for Mn in Rhombohedral La0.8Sr0.2Mn1−xFexO3 — the Structural,Magnetic, and Magnetocaloric Properties

Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism - The effect of Fe doping on the structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric properties was studied on La0.8Sr0.2Mn1?xFexO3...     

Structural relaxation and related viscous flow of Zr–Cu–Al-based bulk glasses produced from the melts with different glass-forming ability

The relaxation ability of Zr₄₆(Cu_4/5Ag_1/5)₄₆Al₈ and Zr₄₆Cu₄₆Al₈ bulk glasses displaying different glass-forming ability (GFA) in the liquid state has been studied by measurements of the shear modulus, creep and stress relaxation. It has been found that the four-component alloy with higher GFA always displays higher relaxation ability in the glassy state. This fact does not seem to correlate with the amount of the frozen-in free volume as dependent on the GFA. It has been argued that the relaxation centers responsible for structural relaxation and related viscous flow are similar to dumbbell interstitials in simple metals. Such an approach precisely describes the kinetics of shear modulus relaxation and reasonably agrees with a phenomenological interpretation of structural relaxation-induced viscoelastic phenomena in metallic glasses.