Abstract
Differential scanning calorimetric curves have been obtained corresponding to the desorption of hydrogen from palladium and palladium–silver alloys. There was no evidence for the existence of an exotherm, following the endothermic desorption of hydrogen, which has been previously found and attributed to the relaxation of a metastable, expanded hydrogen-free palladium lattice. Heats of desorption have been evaluated from the areas of the endotherms and these are reasonable in the light of values obtained by other techniques. Comparisons of scanning curves for palladized and unpalladized hydrogen-containing silver–palladium alloys demonstrate that solid-state diffusion cannot be the slow step for the former but may be for the latter.
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