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Some Thoughts and/or Questions about Activation Energy and Pre-Exponential Factor

Journal Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 249)
Volume Diffusion in Solids - Past, Present and Future
Edited by B.S. Bokstein and B.B. Straumal
Pages 61-72
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.249.61
Citation Jean Philibert, 2006, Defect and Diffusion Forum, 249, 61
Online since January, 2006
Authors Jean Philibert
Keywords Activation Enthalpy, Activation Entropy, Arrhenius Law, Compensation Rule, Meyer-Neldel Rule, Reaction Rate
Abstract

The first part of this paper presents a brief historical account of the Arrhenius law, starting from the seminal paper by Arrhenius (1889) up to theoretical developments mainly based on the rate theory. The second part describes the so called compensation rule (Meyer-Neldel rule), a correlation between activation enthalpy and entropy (or between pre-exponential factor and activation energy) , and discusses whether this correlation is trivial or bears some physical meaning.

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