Thermal decomposition:

Terms Related to Thermal decomposition

• Electrolysis

  The decomposition of a chemical compound brought about by the passage of an electrical current through the compound or through the solution containing the compound. ...

• Fermentation

  Decomposition process of certain organic substance, e.g., starch, in which a chemical change is brought by enzymes, bacteria, or other microorganisms. Often referred to as ...

• Surfactant

  A soluble compound that concentrates on the surface boundary between two substances such as oil and water and reduces the surface tension between the substances. ...

• Specific heat

  The amount of heat required to cause a unit increase in temperature in a unit mass of a substance, expressed as numerically equal to the ...

• Petroleum

  A substance occurring naturally in the earth and composed mainly of mixtures of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, with or without other nonmetallic elements ...

• Surfactant mud

  A drilling mud prepared by adding a surfactant to a water-base mud to change the colloidal state of the clay from that of complete dispersion ...

• Fusible plugs

  A thermal device employed on surface flow lines as part of an emergency shutdown.