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Chemical Thermodynamic Data Banks

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National Bureau of Standards

National Measurement Laboratory

Chemical Thermodynamics Division

Washington, DC 20234

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CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMIC DATA BANKS

David Garvin, Vivian B. Parker and Donald D. Wagman

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Bureau of Standards

National Measurement Laboratory

Chemical Thermodynamics Division

Washington, DC 20234

August 1 981

Interim Report

Prepared for Office of Standard Reference Data

National Bureau of Standards

Washington, DC 20234

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS, Ernest Ambler, Director

Table of Contents

Page

1 Introduction 1

2. Evolution of Data Evaluation in

in Chemical Thermodynamics 2

3. Description of Data Banks 5

3.1 Information Resources 5

3.2 Evaluation of Data 7

3.2.1 The Thermochemical Data System 7 3.2.2 Treatment of Individual Papers 9

3.2.3 Values for Chemical Thermodynamic

Properties 10

4. Thermodynamic Data Banks at the

Institute for High Temperatures 11

5 What of the Future? 14

References 15

Figures 18

Banks* Chemical Thermodynamic Data *

David Garvin, Vivian B. Parker and Donald D. Wagman

National Bureau of Standards

Washington, D.C. 20234

Abstract

A substantial critical evaluation of chemical thermodynamic measurements

on inorganic and C-j^ organic compounds has recently been completed. This provides

selected values for some 14300 substances, based on a collection of 250,000 measurements. This work is placed in a historical context of three earlier comprehensive

evaluations of thermochemical data.

During the course of this work data banks of several types have been developed:

bibliography, extracted unevaluated data, evaluated measurements (catalogs of

reactions) and selected chemical thermodynamic properties for individual substances.

The design, structure and use of those data banks are described.

The course of modern data evaluation, based on these files, is discussed

briefly in terms of tests for inter-measurement consistency and automated

solutions of large networks of data.

A complementary thermodynamic data system developed at the Institute for High

Temperatures, Moscow, USSR is described briefly. Proposed international activities

are outlined.

Key words: chemical thermodynamics; data evaluation; data banks; information

systems; networks of data; standard reference data; thermochemistry.

Presented at the American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA., March 1981

1 . Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to describe several data banks that

have been developed as aids in providing compilations of evaluated chemical

thermodynamic data. They are also becoming available to the thermodynamics

community as information resources.

The first data resources to be described are those developed at the

Chemical Thermodynamics Data Center at the National Bureau of Standards. They

have been used primarily for the evaluation of thermochemical data.

Also to be described is a second set of data banks developed primarily

for use in the evaluation of thermophysical data. This set of data banks and

an associated data management system have been developed at the Institute for

High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Science, Moscow.

These data banks reflect only part of the world wide activity in the

evaluation of chemical thermodynamic data. Some other major activities are

mentioned very briefly in the final section of this paper. There are also

data dissemination and calculation systems that are being developed to simplify

retrieval and use of thermodynamic data. This rapidly growing activity is not

reviewed here.

To begin with it is advisable to define the terms being used here.

"Thermochemical properties" are those that involve chemical reactions and

mixing processes such as enthalpies of reaction combustion, solution and dilution; Gibbs energies from equilibrium constants, electromotive cell measurements, and mixing experiments; entropy and heat capacity changes. In all of

these chemical and physical (mixing) processes the chemical identity of the

substance in the system changes. "Thermophysical properties" are those that

pertain to single substances and mixtures that remain essentially unchanged

during a process. They include PVT properties, entropy, heat capacity, and

enthalpy changes accompanying changes of temperature and pressure, Gibbs energy functions, enthalpies of vaporization and transition, and all other aspects of phase changes.

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These two types of properties are illustrated in figure 1. The

horizontal arrows for reactions apply to changes in thermochemical properties,

the vertical arrows to changes in thermophysical properties with temperature.

"Chemical thermodynamic properties" is the name given here to the

aggregation of thermochemical and thermophysical properties. It includes all

of those properties needed for a study of chemical equilibria and heat effects

of reactions as a function of temperature, pressure and composition (of mixtures.)

The data banks developed at NBS are of several types:

° Data extracts of thermodynamic measurements

(substance/property index)

° Bulletin of Chemical Thermodynamics

(Inorganic chemistry section)

0 Catalogs of evaluated Chemical Thermodynamic

Measurements

° Selected Values of Chemical Thermodynamic

Properties (NBS Tech. Note 270)

From our point of view the first three are aids to the preparation of the

fourth: "Selected Values." This is a data bank that contains our recommendations on the thermodynamic properties at 25 °C for inorganic compounds and

low molecular weight organics. It has just been completed and is the fourth

full-scale evaluation of chemical thermodynamic data with which NBS has been

associated in the past fifty five years. The data banks are best considered in

the context of this activity.

2. Evolution of Data Evaluation in Chemical Thermodynamics

The nature and scope of thermochemical data evaluation activities have

undergone a series of changes in the past 55 years, both in the collection and

storage of thermochemical data and in the actual data evaluation process itself.

A brief history of this evolution is in order.

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The International Critical Tables under the editorship of E. Washburn at NBS

published a set of tables of heats of formation in 1929. These tables [1] were

compiled by F. Russell Bichowsky, Naval Research Laboratory, and represented

the first modern attempt to collate all the published data involving enthalpies

of reaction and to prepare self consistent tables of selected values of enthalpies of formation.

Approximately 3700 inorganic and C-j - organic compounds were listed, with

either an enthalpy of formation, of dilution, or of transition. Also included

was the measurement type, by code, and the reference: a shorthand documentation.

These 3700 total data items were obtained from a total of 1113 literature

references. These references were abstracted, indexed and coded by compound and

type of measurement. Bichowsky developed this as a hand written 3x5 card file.

This was the data bank. (Conservatively it must have had close to 12000 3x5

cards of pertinent information). The evaluation process itself was a completely

manual, sequential approach of making selections, one compound and value at a

time, building relationships and networks until a stable set of values for the

enthalpies had been developed.

This manual, sequential approach has dominated thermochemical data

evaluation and is still being used. Only during the past decade has the computer

based simultaneous solution approach become important. More on this later.

This early data bank was maintained and added to and in 1936 Bichowsky and

Rossini [2] published their "Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances," which

updated the enthalpies of formation, reevaluating and reassembling a self-consistent

set of best values for approximately 6000 (inorganic and C-j - C

2 organic) substances. Phase transition enthalpies were included. The total number of data

items was 6600. The mesurements used were described tersely and compared in

the text. There were now 3750 references. The 3x5 card data bank had in3_.

creased to 22000 items.
By 1940 it was quite obvious that the tables and maintenance of the data files

could no longer be a part-time "extracurricular" activity for one individual.

A formal program was undertaken at NBS headed by Frederick D. Rossini.

Donald D. Wagman joined the staff in 1940 and William H. Evans in 1947. It was

decided taht the scope of teh work must be enlarged, that evaluating only the

ArH's could be both misleading and incomplete, that both the Gibbs energy and

entropy should be included. When the volume "Selected Values of Chemical Thermodynamic Properties," NBS Circular 500 [3] was published in 1952, a line entry

in Series I, on the formation properties, contained not only A^H°, but also

O AfG°, log K.p, S°, Cp, and A^Hq. The phase transition properties (Series II)

covered were AH, T, AS, P, AC . The number of data items was 15000 based on

r 8500 references. The card bank expanded to 50000. The tables were documented

by reference citations only.

This expansion of the tables meant that the user now had data for the

prediction of equilibrium constants and also could correct them to temperatures

other than the reference point, 298.15 K.

The. expansion also had a major impact on the data evlauation process. Gibbs

energy and entropy data could be used to confirm enthalpy measurements and the

combined set could be used to predict values for which there was no direct reliable measurement. This meant that data evaluation became more complex and required more decision making.

It is now 1981 and NBS has just completed the fourth major evaluation of

chemical thermodynamic data. Originally conceived as a revision of Circular 500,

it is a greatly expanded, completely reevaluated self-consistent set of data.

It has been issued as NBS Technical Note 270 in eight parts over the past 16

years [4]. A combined volume will be issued later this year. It covers the

formation properties of 14,300 substances and has 26,000 data items, half of

which are enthalpies of formation. We estimate that 60,000 references were

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used, and that these produced 180,000 cards in our compound/property index.

A sample page from the final section of NBS Tech. Note 270 is shown in Figure 2.

The documentation for this work has not been published. Our plans are described later in this paper.

The growth and changing scope of compiled chemical thermodynamic data are

displayed in Figures 3 and 4.

It became increasingly clear by the later sixties that new methods must be

developed to cope with the explosion of the literature and the more complex

nature of the evaluation process. We turned to the computer for help in

(1) staying on top of the literature (simplify the abstracting of data)

(2) evaluating and intercomparing measurements (3) updating tables, and

(4) documenting and disseminating the information. The developments reported

in the next section reflect this change of procedure.

3. Description of Data Banks

The NBS data banks mentioned at the beginning of this paper were developed

in the course of the evaluation of chemical therodynamic measurements for the

NBS tables "Selected Values of Chemical Thermodynamic Properties." The data

banks are of two types:

° information resources

° evaluated data

3.1. Information Resources These are of three types: bibl iography , microform

copies of papers and extracts of data. The last, the "card file" mentioned

earlier, is the principal resource. It contains many types of information, all

needed for the evaluation of data:

° Experimentally measured enthalpies of reaction, fusion,

vaporization, sublimation, transition, solution

and dilution.

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° Vapor pressures, solubilities, chemical equilibria and

EMF measurements.

° Heat capacities, experimental and statistically calculated

entropies

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° Molecular structure and energy level data.

0 PVT data and correlations of properties with structure.

All of this information is organized by compound and then by the property

measured. In order to keep this data bank current, staff members of the Chemical

Thermodynamic Data Center scan the primary literature and Chemical Abstracts

each month, select articles, and abstract them. A typical data extract (on one

measurement on one compound) is shown in Figure 5.

This index is now in two parts. Up to 1969 each information unit was

written by hand on a 3 x 5" card. Since then the abstracts have been keyboarded

into a computer file and the hard copies of them have been produced by a complex

report-writing program. This has reduced sharply the routine labor required of

the data abstractors and at the same time has created an archival file of raw

data.

The hand-written file covering chemical thermodynamics up to 1969 has been

microfilmed and is being sold by the NBS Office of Standard Rererence Data. It

contains images of 156,000 cards covering about 40,000 articles.

The computer based file, covering chemical thermodynamics since 1969, is

available on site at NBS-Gai thersburg (as a card file) and has been distributed,

in part, but only for special cooperative projects. Distribution of the entire

file to the public is being considered in connection with the development of an

on-line retrieval system. In the meantime, the limited version that appears in

the Bulletin of Chemical Thermodynamics should serve as an effective guide to

the literature [5].

The Bulletin is an annual current awareness service. It contains indexes to

published thermodynamic and related studes on: organic substances and mixtures.

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inorganic substances, biological and macromolecular systems, and reports on current

research throughout the world. It is issued under the auspices of IUPAC, edited by

Prof. R.D. Freeman, Oklahoma State University, and published by Thermochemistry

,

Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma. A typical section of a page from the Bulletin is

shown in Figure 6.

3.2. Evaluation of Data The development of machine-readable evaluated chemical

thermodynamic data is a result of the automation of parts of the final stage of

the evaluation process in the Chemical Thermodynamics Data Center. "Machine

readable" must be emphasized. Data banks similar to the ones to be described

here existed in the pre-computer era. The evaluation process itself has two

major parts:

* evaluation of each set of measurements reported in an

individual paper

° combining the acceptable measurements from the

various sources to obtain selected, reliable values

of properties.

The process has been discussed in detail elsewhere [6, 7, 8]. It is

described briefly here starting with a brief discussion of the interconnected

nature of thermodynamic data.

3.2.1. The Thermochemical Data System

All thermochemical measurements are relative, yielding changes in properties

for processes. Thermochemical properties of a system also are functions only of

the initial and final states and are independent of the path between the reactants

and the products. These facts and what it is possible to measure control the

structure of the thermochemical data system. There are two features that become

apparent when a large number of such measurements are examined. First there is

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usually a very limited number of replicate measurements for any particular

reaction. Intercomparison of many supposedly identical measurements is not a

major part of the evaluation process.

Second, there often are several chemically distinct experiments or sets

of experiments that lead from a particular reactant to a particular product.

We call each of these distinct sets a "measurement pathway." The phenomenon

is illustrated in Figure 7 for a few compounds of beryllium. It shows six

pathways leading from Be to BeO. They involve measurements on six other compounds, each of which may be part of other networks. Because changes of thermochemical properties are independent of the path, all six paths from Be to BeO

must lead to the same result, in the absence of experimental error.

The multiple measurement path phenomenon adds a dimension to the evaluation

of chemical thermodynamic data that is absent from many other evaluation efforts

extensive quantitative cross checks. This multiple path phenomenon is a major

feature. The extensive crosslinking in the thermochemistry of lithium compounds

is displayed in Figure 8. The many possible intercomparisons make it possible

to select a highly consistent data set.

The large data networks, such as Figure 8, are maps for linear algebra

problems. Thermochemical measurements can be reduced, formally, to equations

involving only the addition and subtraction of properties of compounds, and

these appear only to the first power. An example is given in Figure 9 in which

the measurement for a hydration process is decomposed into three terms, the

enthalpies of formation of each substance from its chemical elements. Given an

interconnected set of such equations, the enthalpies of formation can be solved

for and then the "best values" for the processes reconstructed. For many years

the solution of such networks has been done by hand, but now computer assisted

solutions are becoming important.

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That such large thermochemical networks should be and are being solved using

computer programs is due to the imagination and foresight of two groups of thermochemists. In the early 1960's Daniel Stull, Dow Chemical Co. proposed a system

in which all thermochemical measurements would be put into computer files and the

entire set for all inorganic chemistry could be solved at one time. This concept

was developed by A. N. Syverud [9]. Shortly thereafter J. Brian Pedley,

University of Sussex, proposed a computerized system designed for rapid updating

of tables and for coordinating the work of several groups of data evaluators [10].

He has used it to produce the CATCH Tables [11] and the Sussex - N.P.L. tables

on organic compounds [12]. These computerized approaches have been merged by us,

expanded in a cooperative program between NBS and the University of Sussex, and

used on large networks.

3.2.2. Treatment of Individual Papers

The first step in solving a data network, by computer or not, is the

preparation of the input data. This is the most difficult step. The data evaluator

must verify the work reported in each paper, develop an exact statement

describing the chemistry for each process, and reduce the measured value to a

consistent set of conditions (temperature, pressure, atomic masses etc.). The

overall accuracy must be estimated. All of these acts require the evaluator

to have a broad knowledge of chemical thermodynamics. This preparation of the

input is the most time consuming part of the entire evaluation process. It is

over 80% of the work.

The results of each of these reanalyses can be summarized succinctly as

shown in Figure 10: chemical reaction, property, value, uncertainty, reference

and comments. They can be used directly as input to a machine solution of a

thermochemical network problem. These reanalyses are also accumulated to form

a catalog of evaluated thermochemical measurements that can be used to document

the data evaluation.

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We expect to produce the documentation of the NBS Tables "Selected Values of

Chemical Thermodynamic Properties" in the form of such catalogs, supplemented by

commentary concerning special problems and tables of thermal functions used in the

process. This is instant documentation in a detail that has not been practical

previously.

One such catalog has been published. It covers the thermodynamics of compounds

of thorium and is an experiment in highly structured, detailed documentation with

the minimum of prose [13].

3.2.3. Values for Chemical Thermodynamic Properties

The second part of the evaluation process is the simultaneous solution of the

network of thermodynamic equations to get the formation properties of the compounds.

This is, in effect, the reconciliation of data from many laboratories. The network

is an overdetermined set and has been solved by a robust procedure involving

both least sums and least squares treatments. [6] Several iterations may be

necessary because this is the first point in the process at which estimates of

interlaboratory agreement and accuracy of methods can be made reliably.

The output from a network solution is a set of selected values for the

AfH°, A^G° and S°’s of the compounds being studied. This solution has a property

that is not well recognized. Because the measurements are all linked together,

a change in one part of the network will cause changes in most of the A^H's , etc.,

while the best values for most of the individual processes will remain almost the

same. This situation is the basis of pleas by evaluators that the user avoid

mixing property values from several tables. It also explains why tables of

thermochemical data are constructed to cover the full range of chemical compounds.

Because the totality of inorganic thermochemistry is still too large for one

solution to be practical, a series of solutions has been made, usually for compounds of one element at a time, group by group across the periodic table from

right to left. (As the results of each solution are entered into the data bank

they become available as fixed data for later solutions. This keeps all solutions

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consistent with each other.) Solutions for compounds of eight elements: Th,

U, Li, Na, K, Rb, B, and Cs, have been made by machine. Earlier solutions

were made by hand, using a sequential technique.

The computer file of selected values is being used to produce the forthcoming

NBS Tech. Note 270-8, the last in the series, and will be used to produce the combined volume for the entire series. With this computerized data bank it will be

very easy to convert all values to SI units (from calories at 1 atmosphere to

joules at 10 pascal.) This data bank will also become part of the thermodynamics

module of the Chemical Information System sponsored by NIH and EPA.

Let us return for a moment to the catalog of evaluated thermodynamic

measurements. This catalog will outlive our "Selected Values" because new measurements will force modification of the selections. The catalog, supplemented with

new data, and operated on by existing programs will permit an instant update.

This would have been impractical using the older, manual, sequential methods.

4. Thermodynamic Data Banks at the Institute for High Temperatures

A very active thermodynamic data evaluation group at the Institute for

High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow (IVTAN), headed by

L.V. Gurvich, publishes two sets of tables. They are "Thermodynamic Properties

of Individual Substances" [14] and "Thermal Constants of Substances," [15] The

former is analogous to the JANAF Thermochemical Tables [16] and the latter [15]

is similar to NBS Technical Note 270, but also includes transition properties.

In recent years the preparation of these volumes has been supported by a specialized

data base management system that contains extensive data banks. Professor Gurvich

has provided a description of this very attractive, flexible data system, which

is given below in a slightly modified form.

The data bank on thermodynamic properties was created in the chemical

thermodynamic department of the Institute of High Temperatures of the USSR

Academy of Sciences (IVTAN). Unlike most other data banks, the IVTAN data bank

does not accumulate the data recommended in various reference books. It contains

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or generates the thermodynamic properties data for a wide temperature range

on the basis of critical analysis of all primary literature sources. This data

bank is used in the conversational mode using the "Image" subsystem on an

Hewlett-Packard 3000 computer system. It contains a number of disc files, one

file for each compound. Data for different isomers and also gaseous and condensed phases of the same substance are stored in separate files.

The system consists of a set of programs and data bases. The data bases now

include the following:

A) Auxiliary data such as fundamental constants, atomic masses etc.

B) Input data used for the calculation of thermal functions: These

data include molecular constants for gases and values of heat

capacity enthalpy change and phase transition characteristics

for condensed substances. All the data are selected by expert

analysis of the primary literature.

C) Experimental data on equilibrium constants of chemical reactions

and vapor pressures of substances.

D) Intermediate constants obtained by statistical treatment and

critical analysis of data (B) and (C), e.g. reduction of high

temperature data.

E) Thermochemical constants (enthalpies of formation, enthalpies of

sublimation, dissociation energies, ionization potentials, etc.)

based on analysis of the primary literature and data from base (D).

F) Tables of thermodynamic properties, e.g. thermal functions, and

related data for each substances.

The program set includes tens of programs and program modules providing for:

A) Treatment of primary experimental and theoretical data accumulated

in bases (B) and (C).

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B) Calculation of thermal functions of substances in gaseous and

condensed phases over a wide temperature interval using different

approaches in order to get the best possible accuracy for each

compound.

C) Estimation of uncertainties of the thermal functions taking into

account the reliabilities of the selected values of constants

and method of calculation.

D) Statistical treatment of primary experimental data contained in

base (C) using the calculated thermal functions.

E) Calculation of a consistent set of thermochemical constants for

all compounds of a given element using data from base (E).

F) Calculation of the final table of thermodynamic properties for a

given compound including equations fitting the tabulated thermal

functions and equilibrium constants for the reaction of atomization

(or evaporation)

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G) Management of all parts of the data bank.

The data for more than 1000 substances have been accumulated in the IVTAN

data bank up to the present. They cover all substances considered in the first

three volumes of "Thermodynamic Properties of Individual Substances" and some

substances from the last, fourth volume of this series.

In the continuation of this work, IVTAN plan to enlarge the list of elements

and compounds, to introduce a bibliography and short descriptions, and to create

a data base on direct results of experimental measurements of the enthalpy and

free energy of chemical reactions. A number of new programs will be written

also for more accurate calculation of the thermal functions of simple polyatomic

gases, for obtaining an interconsi stent set of thermochemical values for a given

number of chemical substances from primary experimental data, etc.

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5. What of the Future? Where is chemical thermodynamic data evaluation going?

The problem for the future is the rapid updating and effective delivery of

thermodynamic data. Already, the major compilations of evaluated data are aging.

Suppose that a new set of tables of evaluated data is to be issued in 1985.

At least 25,000 new measurements will have to be considered and added to the

catalogs. This is the bottleneck. The assessment of the individual paper has

not been automated successfully although the process can be aided by calculational

programs and graphical displays. Thus the answer must be to use all evaluative

resources throughout the world in a cooperative program.

CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, is developing such

a program. The first phase is the highly successful international Task Group on

Key Values for Thermodynamics which provided new recommendations for one hundred

fifty substances that are base points for many thermochemical measurements. [17].

The second phase is a plan for a much larger multinational thermodynamic data

^yaluation consortium that might produce the next round of thermochemical and

thermophysical tables. This is being developed by the CODATA Task Group on

Internationalization and Systematization of Thermodynamic Tables.

An example of what this might mean is shown in Figure 11. Here we have

a series of independent groups (on the left) each contributing its output to

an international system that would, in turn, serve the individual users.

The cooperative scheme would reduce the overlap in services that exists at

present, and provide the users with a single set of reconmendations and do this

more rapidly. By splitting up the work, by exchange of data, and by common

development of computer procedures the evaluation groups would greatly simplify

their presents tasks.

If all this can be done, the future will indeed be bright for the user of

thermodynamic data.

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V.N. Kostryukov, N.T. Ioffe, G.G. Malenkov, N.L. Smirnova, V.F. Baibuz,

V.I. Alekseev, I.L. Khodakovskii , K.B. Yatsimirski i , and B.P. Biryukov,

editors, "Termicheskii Konstanty Veshchestv", Vol. 1 (1965), Vol. 2 (1966),

Vol. 3 (1968), Vol. 4, part 1 (1970), part 2 (1971), vol. 5 (1971),

Vol. 6, part 1 (1972), part 2 (1973), Vol. 7 in 2 parts (1974), vol. 8 in

2 parts (1978), Vol. 9 (1979); Viniti, Moscow.

16. Stull, D.R. and H. Prophet, JANAF Thermochemical Tables, 2d Ed.,

Nat. Stand. Ref. Data Ser., Nat. Bur. Stand. (U.S.), (1971) 37.

Chase, M.W., J.L. Curnutt, A.T. Hu, H. Prophet, A.N. Syverud and

L.C. Walker, - 1974 Supplement, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data (1974) .3,

311-480. Chase, M.W., J.L. Curnutt, H. Prophet, R.A. McDonald, A.N. Syverud,

- 1975 Supplement, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data (1975) 4., 1-175.

Chase, M.W., Curnutt, J.L., R.A. McDonald, A.N. Syverud, J. Phys. Chem.

Ref. Data (1978) 7, 793-940.

17. CODATA Task Group on Key Values for Thermodynamics J.D. Cox. Chairman (1978).

"CODATA Recommended Key Values for Thermodynamics 1977." CODATA Bulletin 28.

CODATA, Paris, Idem (1980). "Tentative Set of Key Values for Thermodynamics.

Part VIII". CODATA Special Report No. 8. CODATA, Paris.

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FIGURE CAPTIONS

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

Figure

1. A thermodynamic cycle involving a chemical reaction at two temperatures

2. Sample entries from the table on compounds of sodium from NBS Tech.

Note 270-8. The highlighted items are new material, showing expansion

from NBS Circular 500. All properties values (highlighted or not) are the result of new evaluations.

3. Chemical thermodynamic properties included in the International

Critical Tables, Bichowsky and Rossini, NBS Circular 500 and

NBS Tech. Note 270.

4. Growth of compiled chemical thermodynamic data over a fifty year period

5. Extract of Data. The contents summarize one set of measurements of a property of a single compound. This is the useful information unit in

chemical thermodynamics.

6. Section of a page from the Bulletin of Chemical Thermodynamics showing

the substance, property measured (two letter code) and reference.

7. A Thermochemical network showing the measurement paths leading from

elemental beryllium to beryllium oxide.

8. Lithium Thermochemical Network. Each node (box) is a compound and

each line is a measurement. The common starting point at the left

is Li(^) and the top two compounds in the next column are Li ( g

)

and Li (aq, std. state). Rectangles are enthalpies, diamonds are Gibbs energies and hexagons are entropies.

9. Thermochemical process showing relationship of the measured enthalpy

to enthalpies of formation.

10.

Reaction Catalog. Examples of the stylized summary of evaluated data.

The form actually used is machine readable.

1 1 . International Cooperation in Thermodynamic Data Evaluation. A

possible organization of a consortium.

18
c

T

2

+ B

+ B

THERMOPHYSICAL

H2' H1

(G2- HjJ/Tj

THERMOCHEMICAL

AH, AG, AS

FIGURE 1

19
0) .2'C

03 CO co I ®1 r*» to ^

03 a; ~ o

S.f 2 ra 0- .2 •2J £ o S*o I 2 w l-E

03 (0 £ T3

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</>“

I!(0 O > ••= _ ra 13

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a

f

H

a

f

G

s

4

f

H 0

H-H0

ICT B&R C500 TN 270

X X X X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

4H

tr

4Str

Pr T

TR'

1 TR

X X X

X

X

FIGURE 3

21
ICT B&R C500 TN 270

PUBLi YEAR 1929 1936 1952 1981

Substances 3720 6000 7000 14300

2840 CTR)

Data Items 3720 6600 10,500 26,000

4,200 CTR)

References 1113 3750 8500 60,000

Document- ReF,+ Ref.+ Ref, Reaction

ation Meas, TEXT ONLY catalog

code (Planned)

FIGURE 4

22
BaCl 0

2 taq ,B00H

2 O) Sobol, L.G., and Selivanonva, N . M .

, t Zhur. F i z . K h i m . 43, 2937-2938 (1969)

Heas. heat of reaction of N a H S 0 4 and NaHSO^.HgO with BaClg(aq), plus heats of solution, at 25 C in isothermaLjacket calorimeter.

BaCl

2 (800H2 0) + NaHS0

4

. HgO ( c ) = BaS0

4 (c)

+ NaCl(800H

2 0) + HCl(800H

2 0] + HgOtliq)

iAH = -6.7 + 0.10 kcal/mol

BaC

l

2 691442

FIGURE 5

47. OSMIUM Os

Os/Zr(c/!iq) Px 5623-79

OsOj(g) Md 5209-79

OsO,(g) Md 5672-79

OsO,F,(g) Md 5672-79

48. MANGANESE Mn

Mn(aq) Px 6811-79

Mn(c) + FeSlc) — MnS(c) + Fdc) Kk 6525-79

Mn(liq) - H ; (g> Px 6580-79 Mn - Fe - O(liq) Px 6672-79 Mn/O/S/Fe/Ti DmPx AUSOOIK

Mn/D, Hm GFR023P

Mn/D. Pv GFR023P

FIGURE 6
Al (c)

FIGURE 7

See next page for Figure 8.

NaBr(c) + 2H

2

0(C) = NaBr-2H

2

0 (c)

AH = -19.24 + 0.05 kJ/mol

= A

f

H (NaBr-2H

2 0) -A

f

H(NaBr) -2A

f

H (HO)

Y + u = (-19.24 + 0.05) kJ/mol = X

3

- X

] - 2x

2

FIGURE 9

24
cmiiDi:

25

Li

Thermochemical

Network
REACTION CATALOG INPUT REFERENCE: 66 ARO/AUS

* PROPERTY MEASURED: H (OR G OR S ) ; UNIT: C (OR J OR V) OBSERVED VALUE +- UNCERT.: 37.0 +-4.5 REACTION: TH'3N4(C) = 3 TH'N(C) + 0.5 N2(GS') COMMENT: AUTHORS ' 2N0-LAW VALUE 36 .35 AT APPROX. 1923 K ADJ'D BY 0.65 USING ESTD. CPITH3N4] = 39.33 + 0.00624T - 533000/T2 . BIBLIOGRAPHY: ARONSON, S.; AUSKERN, A.B.; J. PHYS.CHEM.

70, 3937 (1966) .

FIGURE 10

Coordinated Projects Shared Expertise Shared Work Load

Common, Consistent Wortd Wide

Data Bank Use

FIGURE 11

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August 1981 SHEET (See instructions) NBSIR 81-2341

4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE

Chemical Thermodynamic Data Banks

5. AUTHOR(S)

David Garvin, Vivian B. Parker, Donald D. Wagman

6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION (If joint or other than NBS, see instructions

)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20234

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10.

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

1 | Document describes a computer program; SF-185, FIPS Software Summary, is attached.

11.

ABSTRACT (A 200-word or less factual summary of most significant information. If document includes a significant

bibliography or literature survey, mention it here)

A substantial critical evaluation of chemical thermodynamic measurements on inorganic and C-. -Cp organic compounds has recently been completed. This provides

selected values for some 14300 substances, based on a collection of 250,000 measurements

This work is placed in a historical context of three earlier comprehensive evaluations

of thermochemi cal data.

During the course of this work data banks of several types have been developed:

bibliography, extracted unevaluated data, evaluated measurements (catalogs of reaction:.)

and selected chemical thermodynamic properties for individual substances. The design

structure and use of those data banks are described.

The course of modern data evaluation, based on these files, is discussed briefly

in terms of tests for inter-measurement consistency and autmoated solutions of large

networks of data.

A complementary thermodynamic data system developed at the Institute for High

Temperatures , Moscow, USSR is described briefly. Proposed international activities

are outlined.

12.

KEY WORDS (Six to twelve entries; alphabetical order; capitalize only proper names; and separate key words by semicolons)

chemical thermodynamics; data evaluation; data banks; inforamtion systems; networks of

data; standard reference data; thermochemistry.

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