Abstract
The measurement of Oxidation of nickel has been investigated using vacuum quartz microbalance in the temperature range of $500^{\circ}{\sim}800^{\circ}C$ at various oxygen pressure. The rate constants of nickel-oxidation were evaluated according to the parabolic rate law. From the Arrhenius equation, the activation energy in the range of experimental temperatures were found that $E_{act}$= 35.4 Kcal/mole. It was also found that the parabolic rate constants varied approximately as the one fifth power of the oxygen pressure for nickel-oxidation. The mechanism for the oxidation of this metal were seemed to be via cation vacancy produced by excess of oxygen dissolved in the oxide film.
순수한 nickel의 酸化에 대하여 大氣中에서와 各種 酸素壓力下 $500^{\circ}{\sim}800^{\circ}C$에서 石英製 微量天秤을 使用하여 그 速度를 測定하였다. Nickel의 速度常數는 Parabolick rate Law에 의하여 계산하였다. 活性化 에너지는 Arrhenius式에 의하여 구하였으며 ${\Delta}E^*=35.4{\pm}$1.5 Kcal/mole을 얻었다. Nickel酸化에서 酸化速度常數는 酸素壓力의 1/4.93乘에 比例함을 확인하였고 Nickel의 酸化機構는 Oxide Film에 용해되어 과잉으로 存在하는 酸素에 의해서 形成된 陽이온 Vacancy (空位)에 依存한다는 結論에 도달하였다.