Course Details
Theoretical fundamentals of silicates technology
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Chemical equilibria, the Guldberg-Waag Law, systems outside of equilibrium, reaction isotherm.
- 2. State behaviour of liquids, surface effects, cohesion pressure, transport processes in liquids.
- 3. Phase equilibria, one component system, Gibbs Law of phases, system with two components.
- 4. Heterogeneous one-, two- and more-components systems, solubility of gases in liquids.
- 5. The systems: solid phase-gas, solid phase-liquid phase, ternary systems.
- 6. Electrochemistry, Faradays Laws, molar conductivity of weak and strong electrolytes, the Wheatstone´s bridge, dissociation and hydrolysis, ionic product of water, galvanic elements.
- 7. Disperse systems, division, basic physical properties, coagulation, zeta-potential.
- 8. Reaction kinetics, order and molecularity of reaction, reactions of 1st, 2nd, and higher orders, catalysts.
- 9. Structure of silicates, Pauling´s principles, basic structural arrangement.
- 10. Clay minerals, structural arrangement. Classification of clay minerals, water bond in clay minerals.
- 11. Structure and the properties of silicate melt. Melt crystallisation, the structure of glass.Heterogeneous equilibria in silicate systems, reactions in solid state.