Molecular and Chemical Physics, Chemistry, Biological Effects, Geo and Planetary Sciences, New Resources, Dynamic Pressures, High Pressure Safety

High Pressure Science and Technology, Volume 2 contains the proceedings of the Association Internationale for Research and Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology's VIIth International Conference held in Le Creusot, France, from July 30 to August 3, 1979. The papers explore a wide range of topics relating to high pressure science and technology, including molecular and chemical physics; melting and dense fluids; liquid crystals; molecular thermophysical properties; light scattering; intermolecular spectroscopy; high-temperature, high-pressure fluids; and properties of earth materials.
This volume is comprised of 128 chapters and begins by calculating equations of state for static molecular and metallic hydrogen using the density functional method. The following chapters discuss the effect of density on the induced near infrared absorption spectrum of solid molecular hydrogen at 4.2 K; vibrational relaxation in highly compressed hydrogen; the dual melting curves of carbon tetrachloride; and the statistical theory of polymorphic phase transitions and crystallization. Alkane chain conformation as a function of pressure is also examined, along with high pressure thermodynamics and phase equilibria of fluid mixtures. The remaining sections focus on the lithosphere, athenosphere, and the behavior of dense materials.
This book will be a valuable resource for materials scientists, metallurgists, physicists, chemists, and mechanical engineers.

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Volume 2

VI Molecular and Chemical Physics

Hydrogen and Light Elements

VI.1.1 Molecular and Metallic Hydrogen. A Unified Density Functional Approach

VI.1.2 Effect of Density on the Induced near Infrared Absorption Spectrum of Solid Molecular Hydrogen at 4.2 K

VI.1.3 Melting of 4He at Room Temperature

VI.1.4 Sound Velocity and Equation-of-State Measurements in High Pressure Fluid and Solid Helium

VI.1.5 Solid Nitrogen at Pressures up to 410 kbar

VI.1.6 Neutron Diffraction Study of Solid Parahydrogen at Pressure up to 5 kbar

VI.1.7 Equation of State for Non-Transitional Metals and Metallic Hydrogen

VI.1.8 Properties of H2, Kr and Xe Insulator Hydrides

VI.1.9 Experimental Study of the Vibrational Relaxation (V-T) in Highly Compressed Hydrogen

VI.1.10 Ultrasonic Velocity Ratio Measurements in Solid Hydrogen to Pressures in Excess of 60 kbar

Melting and Dense Fluids

VI.2.1 The Dual Melting Curves of Carbon Tetrachloride

VI.2.2 Triplet Interactions in Dense Noble Gases

VI.2.3 The Phase Diagram of Ethane under High Pressure

VI.2.4 The Coexistence Surface of Neon-Xenon near the Critical Double Point

VI.2.5 On the Statistical Theory of Polymorphic Phase Transitions and Crystallization

Liquid Crystals

VI.3.1 Liquid Crystals and Plastic Crystals at High Pressure

VI.3.2 Equation of State of Orientationally Disordered Solids and Internal Phonon Radiation Pressure

VI.3.3 Elliptic Phase Boundaries Between Nematic and Smectic Phases

VI.3.4 Smectic Polymorphism of Some Bis-(4,4'-n-Alkoxybenzylidene)-1,4-Phenylenediamines up to 3 kbar by Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA)

VI.3.5 Alkane Chain Conformation as a Function of Pressure

VI.3.6 Dielectric Constant and PVT Measurements on Plastic Crystals at Low Temperatures to 3000 bar

VI.3.7 Equation of State of Crystalline and Semicrystalline Polymers

Molecular Thermophysical Properties

VI.4.1 High Pressure Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria of Fluid Mixtures: Survey and Recent Results

VI.4.2 Thermophysical Properties of Noble Gases at Room Temperature up to 1 GPa

VI.4.3 The Electrical Conductivity of Molten Alkali Metal Halides at High Pressures

VI.4.4 The Effects of Isotopic Substitution in the Diffusion of Water under Pressure

VI.4.5 Correlation of the Glass Transition and the Pressure Dependence of Viscosity in Liquids

VI.4.6 The Viscosity of Argon at Pressures up to 9 kbar

VI.4.7 PVT Relations for HBr-H2O Mixtures up to 550°C and 1500 bar

VI.4.8 PVT Study near the Critical Point of a Pure Substance

VI.4.9 The Effect of Pressure on the Velocity of Sound in Toluene up to 2600 bar

VI.4.10 Analysis of Formal Definition of the Fugacity

Light SCattering

VI.5.1 Study of the Pressure Induced Multicritical Point of NH4 Cl by Second Harmonic Generation of Light

VI.5.2 Rayleigh and Raman Depolarized Light Scattering by Isotropic Molecules

VI.5.3 The Depolarization Factor of Light Scattered from Xenon near its Critical Point

Intermolecular Spectroscopy

VI.6.1 Recent Progress in Infrared, Raman and Rayleigh Spectroscopy of Molecular Interactions in Dense Fluids

VI.6.2 Anharmonic Lattice Vibrations in Solid a and - 2

VI.6.3 Pressure Dependence of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Frequencies in Ionic and Molecular Solids

VI.6.4 Far Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Interactions under Pressure

VI.6.5 Far-Infrared and Raman Study of Solid CH4 under High Pressure

VI.6.6 Pressure Dependence of the Absorption Spectrum of ß Carotene

VI.6.7 Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Exiton Absoption Spectra of Cu2O Crystals

VI.6.8 Studies on Solid NH3 and CO2 to 11 GPa

VI.6.9 The Effect of Pressure on the Raman Spectrum of NH4I

VI.6.10 Matrix-Isolation-Raman-Spectroscopy at High Pressure and at Low Temperature

VI.6.11 Spectroscopic Studies of Local Centers in Crystals under Hydrostatic Pressure at Low Temperatures: O2 Ions in Alkali Halides

High Temperature, High Pressure Fluids

VI.7.1 High Pressure Plasma Research

VI.7.2 PVT Data of Water and Concentrated NaCl Solutions to 600°C and 4 kbar

VI.7.3 High Pressure Studies of Liquid Bismuth and Liquid Lead

VI.7.4 Thermal Conductivity and Density Measurements of Liquid Mercury

VII Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

VII.1.1 Progress in High Pressure Assisted Organic Synthesis

VII.1.2 High Pressure High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Pressure Dependence of the Hindered Rotation of the Amide-Group in Higher Amides

VII.1.3 The Decomposition of Di-Tert. Butylperoxide at High Pressures and Temperatures

VII.1.4 Pairing under Pressure

VII.1.5 Positive and Negative Activation Volumes in the Dealdolization of Diacetone Alcohol at High Pressure

VII.1.6 The Q-e Scheme and the Pressure Dependence of Reactivity Ratios in Free Radical Multicomponent Polymerizations

VII.1.7 Effect of High Pressure on the Rate of Electrode Reaction of Metal Complex

VII.1.8 High Pressure Radical Polymerization of Ethylene by Means of a Tubular Reactor the Preheater of which is Replaced by an Autoclave Reactor in which Polymerization Takes Place

VII.1.9 Effect of Pressure on the Rate of Liquid Phase Isomerization of Diethyl Maleate to Diethyl Fumarate over a Solid Base Catalyst

Chemistry and Combustion

VII.2.1 High Pressure Gas Phase Combustion

VII.2.2 Combustion of Lean Gas under Pressure

VII.2.3 The Interpretation of Volumes of Activation of Chemical Reactions in Solution

VII.2.4 N.I.R. Spectroscopic Determination of Reaction Volumes of Hydrogen Bonding Equilibria

VII.2.5 High Pressure Synthesis of Dihydropyranes and Derivatives

VII.2.6 Radical Polymerizability of N-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-Hydroxy)-Benzylacrylamide under High Pressure

VII.2.7 Infrared Spectroscopic Flow Reactors for Solid-Fluid Reactions at High Temperature and Pressure

VIII Biological Effects

VIII.1.1 High Pressure Stopped-Flow Studies of Fast Conformational Changes in Proteins

VIII.1.2 The Effect of High Pressures Upon Protein-Ligand Complexes

VIII.1.3 Lysogenic Bacteria under High Pressures

VIII.1.4 Effects of Helium Pressure on Biological Membranes. A Pharmacological Approach to the High Pressure Nervous Syndrome

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