A phenomenological study of heterogeneous chemical reactions of mercuric chloride on heated stainless steel surfacesa)
- 15 July 1983
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 79 (2) , 1100-1101
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.445851
Abstract
We have made the first measurements of the products of surface chemical reactions of mercuric chloride on heated stainless steel using the technique of electron‐energy‐loss spectroscopy as an analytic tool. We find that HgCl2 reacts with hydrogen in the stainless steel to form hydrochloric acid HCl. Under our experimental conditions HCl becomes the cominant species observed in our spectra at surface temperatures greater than about 150 °C. The possible consequences of our observation on the efficiency of mercuric halide lasers is discussed. (AIP)Keywords
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