Pyrolysis study of hydrophobic tholins by TG-MS, TG, DTA and DSC methods

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1699-1706

  De La Fuente, José L ^a   Ruiz Bermejo, Marta ^b   Menor Salván, César ^b   Osuna Esteban, Susana ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coupled TG MS; DSC; DTG; Hydrophobic tholins; Thermal decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; COUPLED TG-MS; DSC; DTG; HYDROPHOBIC THOLINS; OXIDATIVE ATMOSPHERE; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; THERMOGRAVIMETRY-MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; ETHYLENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANE; PROPYLENE; PYROLYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84881481024     PISSN: 13886150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-011-2141-1     Document Type: Article

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