Thermophysical Properties of Alkali Metals

The monograph is dedicated to the complex investigation of thermophysical properties of alkali metals - lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium - in condensed and vaporous phases in a wide interval of parameters of state. The basis of operation is formed by detailed analysis of existing experimental and theoretical data about corresponding properties. The most reliable results are sampled and coordinated. For metals in the condensed phase, the temperature relationship of density, enthalpy, viscosity, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, surface tension was investigated. In vapor phase, the relationship of vapor pressure to temperature, thermodynamic properties of dry saturated and superheated vapors, and also transfer properties - viscosity and thermal conductivity was investigated. There are tables, illustrations and a bibliography of 357 titles. (Author) Edited machine trans. of mono. Teplofizicheskie Svoistva Shchelochnykh Metallov, Moscow, 1970 p1-488, by Robert A. Potts.