Document Type
Article
Article Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the condensation of sodium vapor and the formation of a sodium aerosol as it occurs in a gas evaporation condensation chamber. A one-dimensional model describing the vapor transport to the vapor/aerosol interface was employed to determine the onset supersaturation, in which we assume the observed location of the interface is coincident with a nucleation rate maximum. We then present and discuss the resulting nucleation onset supersaturation data within the context of nucleation theory based on the liquid droplet model. Nucleation results appear to be consistent with a cesium vapor-to-liquid nucleation study performed in a thermal diffusion cloud chamber.
Publication Title
The Journal of chemical physics
Repository Citation
Martinez, Daniel M.; Ferguson, Frank T.; and Heist, Richard H., "Experimental studies of the vapor phase nucleation of refractory compounds. VI. The condensation of sodium." (2005). Engineering Faculty Publications. 143.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/engineering-facultypubs/143
Published Citation
Martínez, D. M., Ferguson, F. T., Heist, R. H., & Nuth III, J. A. (2005). Experimental studies of the vapor phase nucleation of refractory compounds. VI. The condensation of sodium. The Journal of chemical physics, 123(5), 054323. doi:10.1063/1.1998834.
DOI
10.1063/1.1998834
Peer Reviewed
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Copyright 2005 American Institute of Physics
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