Although the recent methods of extracting gases from aluminium and its alloys are made by heating the metal in vacuo, the author, in the present report, has evolved a method where by the sample is melted in a vessel, and then the same is adopted as a pole in a discharge appratus operating at about 1, 000_??_10, 000 volts with an alternating current of a few milliamps. The gases which are thus evolved are collected by the Sprengel pump, and measured and analysed., The total quantity of gases that can thus be extracted from pure aluminium by the author's method is between 15_??_20 cc/100 grams of metals in comparison with 0.5_??_1.5 cc/100 grams of metal collected by using the common method of solely heating vacuo. Although a method similar o the author's has already been proposed by Moreau, Chaudron, and Portevin, the following fundamental differences exist there:
Author's method Moreau, Chaudron, and Portevin's method
(1) Current used Alternating Direct
(2) State of metal Molten Solid
(3) Amount of sample Optional Thin sheet (0.1m/m thickness)
(4) Condition of sample Can be entirely freed from surface contamination Cannot be entirely freed from surface contamination
From the above-mentioned differences, we can state that (1) the sample in the method as adopted by Moreau, Chaudron, and Portevin cannot be entirely freed from the surface, contamination, as has been pointed out by Steinhäuser; and consequently it becomes a source of error in measuring the total gas content of the metal itself; and that (2) the smallness in quantity of the sample is such that a large room for error likewise enters into the calculations in comparison with the total gas content of the sample itself. On the other hand, the author's method not only eliminates the above two sources of error, but also its efficiency is unimpaired by the presence of oxide film on the surface of the sample in extracting the gas from the metal. As a result of the above analysis, the author concludes that a portion of the gases existing in the metal is in so stable a state that it cannot be entirely extracted from the metal by the common method of heating in vacuo. However, by applying activation energy on the metal by the author's discharge method, the hydrogen that exists in the metal, either in a state of adsorption, solid solution, or chemical compound (Al H), is decomposed into free atomic hydrogen {H
2→2 H, (Al H)
n→Al+H}, thus enabling the extraction of all the gases from the metal at a high rate of diffusion.
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