Ag. Cunha et al., The use of a thermobaric analyzer at synthesis of the HgCaO2 and superconductor Hg-1223 inside sealed quartz tubes, PHYSICA C, 341, 2000, pp. 2469-2470
We compared the pressure inside sealed quartz tubes versus temperature for
two different syntheses: the superconductor HgBa2Ca2CU3O8+delta (Hg-1223) a
nd the competitor impurity phase HgCaO2. This study was done by using a new
technique called thermobaric analysis (TBA), which was developed by us and
allows the in-situ measurement of the total pressure of the gases in seale
d quartz tubes during the syntheses at high temperatures.