Author:
Gee Norman,Freeman Gordon R.
Abstract
Electron thermalization has been studied in gaseous and liquid benzene at 4.1 ≤ d/kg m−3 ≤ 878 (temperatures 295–560 K) using measurements of the free-ion yield [Formula: see text] as a function of electric field strength E and temperature T. The measured [Formula: see text] values at each T were compared to those calculated using an extended Onsager model. Assumption of a three-dimensional Gaussian distribution of secondary electron thermalization distances YG resulted in too large a field dependence. The Gaussian with the small added tail, YGP, gave the correct dependence. Values of the yield extrapolated to zero field, [Formula: see text] and of the most probable thermalization distance bGP were obtained. Variation of the density-normalized distance bGPd with reduced density d/dc (dc = critical fluid density) was expected to be similar to that in ethene, due to the π-electrons in the two compounds. Instead, it was similar to that in ethane. Throughout the liquid range, epithermal electrons were de-energized less efficiently than in the gas at d < 0.5 dc where the benzene molecules are further apart. As the density increases above 2 dc the values of bGPd decreased as in other hydrocarbons, rather than like those in hexafluorobenzene, which increased sharply. Dielectric constants were also measured up to 560 K.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Organic Chemistry,General Chemistry,Catalysis
Cited by
20 articles.
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