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Supercritical Water and Other Fluids — A Historical Perspective

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Supercritical Fluids

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Dense, supercritical high pressure fluids find rapidly increasing interest in science and industry. Experimental research at the Institutes for Physical Chemistiy of Göttingen and Karlsruhe Universities has accompanied this development since the 1950’s. With am adequate selection of examples, a historical perspective will be attempted which is personal and cannot be representative of the development in the field in general. Supercritical water is the most important fluid. My own interest was initiated in 1953 by c. W. Correns of Mineralogy in Göttmgen, who slowed me that quarte and alkali halides dissolve in dense steam. TMs stimulated our investigation of electrolytic dissociation within a wide range of high temperatures and pressures along with other thermophysical properties of aqueous systems and related fluids.

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Franck, E.U. (2000). Supercritical Water and Other Fluids — A Historical Perspective. In: Kiran, E., Debenedetti, P.G., Peters, C.J. (eds) Supercritical Fluids. NATO Science Series, vol 366. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3929-8_13

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