Online Courses Handbook 2003

11971 (v.2) WASM Metallurgical Chemistry 351

Area:	WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	305694 (v.1) WASM Metallurgical Chemistry 252 or any previous version
Reaction kinetics, activation energy, collision and transition state theories. Surface tension, Gibbs adsorption equations, Langmuir, Freundlich and BET adsorption isotherms, adsorption at solid surfaces. Conductance of electrolytes, activity and activity coefficients of electrolytes, transport numbers, the Debye-Huckel theory, electrochemical cells, the Nernst equation, reference electrodes and standard reduction potentials. Electrical double layer, electrochemical kinetics and metal corrosion. Coordination chemistry.