The thermal behavior of mechanically activated galena by thermogravimetry analysis |
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Authors: | Huiping Hu Qiyuan Chen Zhoulan Yin Pingmin Zhang Lusheng Ye |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | The thermal decompositions of mechanically activated and nonactivated galenas were studied by thermogravimetry analysis (TGA)
at the heating rate of 10 K min−1 in argon. Results indicate that the initial temperature of thermal decomposition (abbreviated as T
di) in the TGA curves for different galenas decreases gradually with increased grinding time. The specific granulometric surface
area (S
G), the structural disorder, and the content of elemental sulfur of mechanically activated galenas were analyzed by an X-ray
diffraction (XRD) laser particle-size analyzer, XRD analysis, and the gravimetric method, respectively, which shows that the
specific granulometric surface area of mechanically activated galenas remains almost constant after a certain grinding time,
but the lattice distortions (ε) rise, the crystallite sizes (D) decrease, and the elemental sulfur contents of mechanically activated galenas increase with increased grinding time. The
results imply that the decrease of the initial temperature of thermal decomposition in the TGA curves for mechanically activated
galenas is mainly caused by the increase of lattice distortions, and the formation of new dangling bonds resulted from the
production of elemental sulfur of mechanically activated galenas with increased grinding time. Finally, the differences in
the thermal-decomposition reactivity between nonactivated and mechanically activated galenas were also discussed. |
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