| | United States Patent Application: 0030207112 |
 | | A stoichiometric form of the material and the material whose stoichiometry is to be ascertained (the "unknown" material) are heated separately in a reactive atmosphere to 0.5 times the melting point of the material. |
 | | Heat a stoichiometric form of the material and the material being evaluated for non-stoichiometry separately in a reactive atmosphere (e.g., oxygen, if oxygen non-stoichiometry is being ascertained) to 0.5 times the melting point of the material; monitor the weight change per unit sample weight. |
 | | Alternatively, measure the properties of the material in the ideal stoichiometric form and compare this with the substance being evaluated for non-stoichiometry; if any property of the material, or the temperature coefficient of any property varies by more than 10% between the two substances, everything else remaining the same, the substance being evaluated is non-stoichiometric. |
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