- Author
- National Academy of Sciences
- Title
- High-Temperature Chemistry: Current and Future Problems.
- Report
- Publication 1470, 104 p.
- Contract
- GRANT-AF-AFOSR-1040-66
- Keywords
- high temperature
- Abstract
- Since its inception in 1961, the National Research Council Committee on High-Temperature Chemical Phenomena has had as its goal the promotion and coordination of activities concerned with high-temperature phenomena and related aspects of materials science. The high-temperature field is an active interdisciplinary area involving chemistry, physics, metallurgy, ceramics, and various engineering fields. The techniques--to "room-temperature" men, at least--are designed for extremes, and high-temperature phenomena are often quite different from those predicted from low-temperature analogies. New kinds of apparatus along with unexpected reactions, new molecules, and other scientific surprises are commonplace in high-temperature research; thus, the high-temperature scientist often has to adapt or innovate.