An. Romanov et al., Kinetics of the thermal desorption of atomic oxygen during transformationsBiO2-x -> beta-Bi2O3 -> alpha-Bi2O3, KINET CATAL, 42(2), 2001, pp. 275-280
The thermal desorption of atomic oxygen during the transformations BiO2-x -
-> beta -Bi2O3 --> alpha -Bi2O3 is shown to be due to the removal of overst
oichiometric oxygen from the bulk of beta -Bi2O3 Oxygen formed at the first
stage is desorbed in a molecular form. The maximum desorption rate of atom
ic oxygen is found before the phase transformation beta -Bi2O3 --> alpha -B
i2O3. The activation energy of the diffusion of excess oxygen in the beta -
Bi2O3 lattice is approximate to 30 kcal/mol.