TABLE 16.

2-2
EXPERIMENTAL DIFFUSIVITIES OF SOME DILUTE GAS PAIRS*

Gas Pair Temperatur (K) DAB (cm2/s)

CO2 - N2O 273.2 0.096

CO2 - CO 273.2 0.139

CO2 - N2 273.2 0.144

288.2 0.158

298.2 0.165

Ar - O2 293.2 0.20

H2 - SF6 298.2 0.420

H2 - CH4 298.2 0.726

*This table is abstracted from J. O. Hirschfelder, C. F. Curtiss,and R. B. Bird,

Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids, Wiley, New York (1954), p. 579. The values
given are for 1 atm pressure.

TABLE 16.2-4
EXPERIMENTAL DIFFUSIVITIES IN THE SOLID STATE*
System T ( oC ) Difusivity, DAB
(cm2/s)
He in SiO2 20 2.4 5.5 x 10-10
He in pyrex 20 4.5 x 10-11
500 2 x 10-8
H2 in SiO2 500 0.6 2.1 x 10-8
H2 in Ni 85 1.16 x 10-8
165 10.5 x 10-8

Bi in Pb 20 1.1 x 10-16
Hg in Pb 20 2.5 x 10-15
Sb in Ag 20 3.5 x 10-21
Al in Cu 20 1.3 x 10-30
Cd in Cu 20 2.7x 10-15

*Values taken from R.M Barrer, Diffusion in and through

Solids. Macmillan New York (1941), pp. 141, 222, and 275.