1. Preface

   • Michel Boivineau

   Preface Pages: 1003 - 1004

2. Viscosity and Surface Tension Measurements in Microgravity

   • I. Egry
   • G. Lohöfer
   • B. Feuerbacher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1005 - 1015

3. The Surface Tension of Undercooled Binary Iron and Nickel Alloys and the Effect of Oxygen on the Surface Tension of Fe and Ni

   • I. Seyhan
   • I. Egry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1017 - 1028

4. Contactless Electrical Conductivity Measurement of Electromagnetically Levitated Metallic Melts

   • T. Richardsen
   • G. Lohöfer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1029 - 1039

5. Observations of the Effects of Oxide Skins on the Oscillations of Electromagnetically Levitated Metal Droplets

   • R. F. Brooks
   • A. P. Day

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1041 - 1050

6. Some Thermal Properties of a Copper–Tin Alloy

   • B. J. Monaghan
   • J. G. J. Neale
   • L. Chapman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1051 - 1060

7. Undercooling and Nucleation Studies on Pure Refractory Metals by Drop Tube Processing: Comments on the Limit to Crystalline Nucleation of Cubic and Compact Metals

   • B. Vinet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1061 - 1070

8. High-Temperature Containerless Viscosity Measurement by Gas-Film Levitation

   • J.-Ch. Barbé
   • C. Parayre
   • N. Kernevez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1071 - 1083

9. Density of Superheated and Undercooled Liquid Alumina by a Contactless Method

   • B. Glorieux
   • F. Millot
   • J.-P. Coutures

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1085 - 1094

10. Normal Spectral Emissivity of Niobium (at 900 nm) by a Pulse-Heating Reflectometric Technique

    • F. Righini
    • J. Spišiak
    • G. C. Bussolino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1095 - 1106

11. Thermophysical Properties by a Pulse-Heating Reflectometric Technique: Niobium, 1100 to 2700 K

    • F. Righini
    • J. Spišiak
    • M. Gualano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1107 - 1116

12. Thermophysical Properties of the Zr–0.01Nb Alloy at Various Heating Rates and Repeated Cycles of Heating–Cooling

    • I. I. Petrova
    • V. E. Peletsky
    • B. N. Samsonov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1117 - 1127

13. Thermal Properties of Tantalum Between 300 and 2300 K

    • N. D. Milošević
    • G. S. Vuković
    • K. D. Maglić

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1129 - 1136

14. Radiance Temperatures (in the Wavelength Range 521 to 1500 nm) of Rhenium and Iridium at Their Melting Points by a Pulse-Heating Technique

    • J. L. McClure
    • K. Boboridis
    • A. Cezairliyan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1137 - 1148

15. Radiance Temperatures (in the Wavelength Range 527 to 1500 nm) of Palladium and Platinum at Their Melting Points by a Pulse-Heating Technique

    • J. L. McClure
    • A. Cezairliyan
    • E. Kaschnitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1149 - 1161

16. Radiative Properties of Uranium Dioxide Near Its Melting Point

    • T. P. Salikhov
    • V. V. Kan
    • C. Ronchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1163 - 1176

17. Dependence of the Melting Temperature on Pressure up to 2000 Bar in Uranium Dioxide, Tungsten, and Graphite

    • M. Musella
    • C. Ronchi
    • M. Sheindlin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1177 - 1188

18. Melting-Point Measurements at High Static Pressures from Laser Heating Methods: Application to Uranium

    • B. Sitaud
    • Th. Thévenin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1189 - 1198

19. Scanning the Melting Curve of Tungsten by a Submicrosecond Wire-Explosion Experiment

    • A. Kloss
    • H. Hess
    • R. Grossjohann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1199 - 1209

20. Fast Melting of Amorphous Silicon Carbide Induced by Nanosecond Laser Pulse

    • P. Baeri
    • C. Spinella
    • R. Reitano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1211 - 1221

21. Phase and Structural Modifications in Porous Silicon Under Pulse Heating

    • L. N. Aleksandrov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1223 - 1235

22. Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Diffusivity of Pulse-Heated W–Re Alloys

    • A. Seifter
    • V. Didoukh
    • G. Pottlacher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1237 - 1246

23. Graphite Melting and Properties of Liquid Carbon

    • V. N. Korobenko
    • A. I. Savvatimski
    • R. Cheret

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1247 - 1256

24. Technique for Measuring Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Metals at Supercritical Temperatures

    • V. N. Korobenko
    • A. D. Rakhel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1257 - 1266

25. Measurement of the Electrical Conductivity of Metals in the Vicinity of the Critical Point

    • A. W. DeSilva
    • J. D. Katsouros

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1267 - 1277

26. Determination of Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Metals by Wire-Explosion Experiments

    • H. Hess
    • A. Kloss
    • H. Schneidenbach

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1279 - 1288

27. Determination of the Critical Point of Gold

    • K. Boboridis
    • G. Pottlacher
    • H. Jäger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1289 - 1297

28. Theoretical Issues in the Calculation of the Electrical Resistivity of Plasmas

    • F. Perrot
    • M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1299 - 1311

29. Depth-Resolved Surface Thermophysical Property Measurement by Laser-Produced Plasmas

    • Y. W. Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1313 - 1323

30. Energy Deposition of Heavy Ions in Matter

    • M. Geissel
    • M. Roth
    • A. Tauschwitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1325 - 1330

31. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 1331 - 1333