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Investigations dealing with physical chemistry have become increasingly important in the European microgravity research programme in recent years. This fact is clearly demonstrated in the subsequent Chapters V to IX dealing with: Transport properties, critical point phenomena, wetting and adsorption phenomena, combustion, and chemical pattern formation. There is evidently an enormous fund of interesting and unresolved problems, which could be tackled more efficiently in a microgravity environment.
In the present chapter we try to give a general survey of microgravity research concerned with physical chemistry and to place these activities into a more general context. Special emphasis is placed on thermodynamics including diffusion processes, nucleation and ageing, chemical reactions, relaxation phenomena including ultrasonic relaxation, applied electrochemistry including electrolysis and process engineering.
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Richter, J., Behret, H. (1987). Physical Chemistry — Overview and Selected Experiments. In: Walter, H.U. (eds) Fluid Sciences and Materials Science in Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46613-7_4
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