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A Method of Using Marked Phase Boundaries

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WHEN iron is oxidized in air, foreign particles on the original surface of the metal will later be found imbedded in the oxide layer. From this observation Fischbeck1 concluded that iron, not oxygen, migrates through the reaction product. Starting from this fact, we have worked out the following simple method for ascertaining the direction of migration in reactions between solid substances.

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  1. Fischbeck, K., Metallwirtsch., 14, 733 (1935).

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  2. Jagitsch, R., and Perlström, G., Arkiv Kemi, Min., Geol., 22A, No. 5 (1946).

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  4. Jagitsch, R., and Mattsson, B., unpublished results.

  5. Bengtson, B., and Jagitsch, R., Arkiv Kemi, Min., Geol., in the press.

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JAGITSCH, R. A Method of Using Marked Phase Boundaries. Nature 159, 166 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159166c0

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