ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 10, Number 4
JKCSEZ 10(4)
August 20, 1966 

The measurement of Oxidation of nickel has been investigated using vacuum quartz microbalance in the temperature range of 500°∼ 800 ℃ at various oxygen pressure. The rate constants of nickel-oxidation were evaluated according to the parabolic rate law. From the Arrhenius equation, the activation energy in the range of experimental temperatures were found that Eact= 35.4 Kcal/mole. It was also found that the parabolic rate constants varied approximately as the one fifth power of the oxygen pressure for nickel-oxidation. The mechanism for the oxidation of this metal were seemed to be via cation vacancy produced by excess of oxygen dissolved in the oxide film.