Abstract: | On the thermodynamics of vapourization of scandium(III) fluoride The vapourization behaviour of solid ScF3 was studied by the KNUDSEN effusion method. ScF3 vapourizes congruently with practically stoichiometric composition in a high vacuum at temperatures from 1300 to 1600°K. Within the temperature ranges 1336–1400 K and 1440–1528°K the vapourization was found to obey the equations respectively, assuming monomeric ScF3 to be the predominant gaseous species. By considering literature data for the vapourisation behaviour of AlF3(s) and LaF3(s) the content of SC2F6 (g) in the saturated vapour over SeF3 (s) was estimated to be approximately 0.3% at 1368 ° K. Second an Third Law calculations were performed using known and estimated thermodynamic data for ScF3(g) and ScF3(s), respectively, and the enthalpies and the enthalpies and entropies of vapourization at 298.15 ° K were obtained (data see “Inhaltsübersicht”). A. critical discussion of the experimental and theoretical results allowed to conclude that vapour pressures of ScF3(s), which were determined by others within were found to be three to four orders of magnitude higher than the vapour pressures determined in this work where are are less probable. |