Degassing kinetics of metal wires

Abstract

A simple analysis of the degassing kinetics of metal wires is presented in order to examine the dependence of the rate of efflux of the dissolved gas on the physical and thermodynamic parameters of the system. In practice, the process often tends to be dominated either by the rate of diffusion of the gas within the metal, or by the desorption rate at the surface. There is, however, some indication that there are situations in which both factors may operate together.