Advances in Fluorine Calorimetry

The development of a new area of thermochemistry (the calorimetry of fluorination reactions) is reviewed. The high reactivity of fluorine offers some important advantages over alternative reagents, but at the same time it introduces some experimental difficulties. We have attempted to generalise the practical problems of fluorine calorimetry by systematically examining a number of specific thermochemical investigations by the most widely adopted modification of the method: fluorine bomb calorimetry. Current developments and possible new applications are reviewed, and the basic experimental procedures and apparatus are described.
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