The author proposed a method for analyzing kinetics of non-stoichiometry by observing cyclic mass change behavior under cyclic temperature change. Because relationship between the mass and the mass change rate is independent on the previous thermal history of the specimen, we can get equivalent isothermal curves (synthesized isothermal curves) by extracting datum pairs of mass and mass change rate at a given temperature and many conversions, changing the frequencies. The equivalent isothermal curves are really the same as curves of conversion and rate of conversion observed isothermally, so that conventional methods for kinetic analysis can be similarly applied to the equivalent isothermal curves. When multiple elementary processes are proceeding, they can be separately observed by changing the frequency, so that, the method proposed in this short communication is useful and effective to elucidate kinetics of non-stoichiometry as well as reversible reactions.
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