Open AccessThe kinetics of the decomposition of calcium carbonate hexahydrate
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1928.0143
Subject(s) - autocatalysis , kinetics , chemistry , decomposition , calcium carbonate , langmuir , carbonate , thermodynamics , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , quantum mechanics , aqueous solution , engineering
Up to the present, so far as we are aware, the kinetics of reactions directly involving two solid phases have not been examined quantitatively in connection with a theory of the mechanism. Qualitative suggestions have been made (cp . G. N. Lewis, Macdonald and Hinshelwood) to account for the autocatalysis observed in particular cases of such reactions. Langmuir drew attention to the importance of theinterface between the two solid phases for dynamic equilibrium in systems of the type: Solid1 ⇆Solid2 + Gas, and Langmuir’s suggestion was applied by Crowther and Coutts to explain the results obtained in a study of the dehydration of certain salt hydrates.