Practice of Kinetics (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Volume 1)

436 INDEXisotopes (contd.J—, use in catalytic reactions, 235-239—, use in kinetics, 65, 77, 78—, use to determine intermediates, 317, 318Kkatharometer, detector in gas chromatography,82, 83—, use in solid decomposition studies, 247Kelvin double bridge, 213Kerr cell, and fluorescence quenching, 153ketene, determination by IR spectroscopy, 90—, flash photolysis of, 305kieselguhr, as liquid support in gas chromatography,80kinetic current, in electroreduction, 158kinetic spectroscopy, 285, 286Knudsen diffusion, and catalysis, 224, 229, 231krypton, effect on radiolysis, 70—, matrix of for trapped radicals, 334—, resonance lamps, 52, 54, 118Llamps, for pulsed illumination, 50; see alsomercury lamps etc.Langmuir-Adams trough, 265-267Langmuir probe, to determine ions in flames,328, 329lanthanum, chemisorption on, 190lanthanum boride, coating of on filament forion gauge, 197lasers, for T-jump, 135—, use in photochemistry, 55, 56lattice defects, and solid state reactions, 254lead, chemisorption on, 190lead, mirrors of, removal by radicals, 314, 315lead oxide, from PbEt 4 and anti-knock, 120lead tetraethyl, flash photolytic study of antiknockaction, 120, 121lead tetramethyl, decomposition of, 314leaks, and Langmuir trough, 267—, in apparatus for determination of effectivediffusivity, 226, 227—, to mass spectrometers, 94, 95, 302-304least squares line, 370, 382, 404, 411, 412LeRoy still, 33, 34lifetime, of CF 3 COr, 152—, of excited aminopyrenes, 156—, of excited states of Hg, 37—, of fluorescing species, 115, L52, 153—, of H-bonded states, 148—, of Hg vapour lamps, 43, 44—, of radiative transitions, 291—, of radicals, determination of, 48-51—, of states and ESR, 150—, of states and NMR, 145—, of Xe or Kr lamps, 53limiting current in polarography, 159-161Lindemann theory of unimolecular reactions,15, 16line reversal, in Hg lamps, 41, 42line width, in ESR, 150—, in NMR, 144-147liquid-gas interface, study of, 263-270lithium, n-butyl, initiator for isoprene polymerisation,409lithium salts, for determination of H in flames,171, 318lubricants, for vacuum taps, 7MMcLeod gauge, 29, 31—, use in adsorption studies, 188magnesium, complex formation, applicationof T^jump, 136magnesium carbonate, decomposition of, 247magnesium ions, reaction + 8-hydroxyquinoline,131-133magnesium oxide, as catalyst support, 222—, chemisorption on, 190—, clean surface by cleavage, 184—, windows of for IR cell, 219—, with Fe 2 O s , sintering of, 256magnetic field, effect on nucleus, 143magnetic moment, of electron, 210—, of nucleus, 209magnetic susceptibility, measurement of andadsorption, 207, 208—, study of radicals and, 308, 309—, study of solid state reactions and, 261magnifying manometer, 29maleic acid, cis-trans isomerisation, 72manganese, chemisorption on, 190—, preparation of films of, 183manganous halides, reaction + ZnS, ESRstudy, 261manganous ions, H a O exchange, NMR study, 149manganous oxide, chemisorption on, 190Mangeldorf's method for firstorder reactions,390, 391manometers, 12-14, 20, 29—, diaphragm, 99, 100—, quartz fibre, 102, 103, 249mass separation in molecular beam sampling,299mass spectrometers, and cool flamestudies, 281—, and gas titration, 320—, and study of adsorption on metal films,197—, and study of catalytic reactions, 239-245