From: Jason Huckaby <huckaby@soleras.com>
Organization: Soleras Ltd.
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Plasma Quench Technology
References: <86dgro$3aa$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>



Steve Gerdemann wrote:
>
> A number of people have proposed that by rapidly quenching a plasma it is
> possible to produce non equilibrium conditions. For example by heating TiCl4
> to 5000K in a plasma the TiCl4 breaks into Ti and Cl. Then all you have to
> do is quench the material very rapidly (say in an adiabatic expansion) to
> get Ti metal. I don't think this is possible because the Ti and Cl will back
> react on the cool down. It seems to me that the only way for the Ti atom to
> cool is to through either radiation or collision with another atom. But
> radiation would not be fast enough and collision would result in reaction.

What is you were to somehow process the material while it is still
in it's excited state?

JH

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