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6. Glossary - Definitions
Thermogravimetry; thermogravimétrie
A technique for measuring, as a function of time or temperature, the mass of a sample heated or cooled according to a specific temperature program.
Stall; jump
Sudden change in a thermodynamic variable (temperature, partial pressure) during a reaction progress monitoring experiment.
Rate-determining step
An elementary step in a mechanism whose rate constants have finite values while those of the other steps are infinite, and which imposes its speed on the reaction.
Étape élémentaire; elementary step
Reaction stage in which no intermediate species are likely to be formed that can be detected by any experiment.
Mécanisme réactionnel; reaction mechanism...
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Bibliography
Events
National
Heterogeneous kinetics study days (JECH): held every year in March or April, organized by an academic laboratory. http://jech.fr/
Days of calorimetry and thermal analysis (JCAT) http://www.afcat.net
CEFRACOR (Centre français de l'anticorrosion)...
Directory
Instrument manufacturers (non-exhaustive list)
Setaram http://www.setaram.fr/
Mettler-Toledo http://fr.mt.com/fr
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