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Oxygen partial pressures; control, variation, and measurement in quench furnaces at one atmosphere total pressure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Gordon M. Biggar*
Affiliation:
Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW

Summary

Oxygen partial pressures in atmospheric-pressure quench furnaces were found to vary by as much as 0·5 in log fo2 when changes were made in gas flow rate and direction suggesting that careful analysis of the gas mixture supplied to a furnace is not a guarantee of the oxygen pressure that a sample in the furnace will attain. The use of magnesiowüstite compositions, with variable oxygen contents, as indicators of oxygen pressure is described.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1974

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