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DURING recent studies of photo-adsorption on high area nickel oxide, decomposition of the oxide was observed at surprisingly low temperatures. Teichner1 first prepared this nickel oxide by decomposing Ni(OH)2 at 200Ā° C for 2 h at a pressure of less than 10ā5 mm mercury. It is yellow-green, with a surface area of approximately 100 m2gā1 and has a composition which is almost stoichiometric2. Both composition and area are little changed by further annealing under the same conditions, but on exposing the oxide to higher pressures of oxygen, it blackens instantly.
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LARKINS, F., FENSHAM, P. Decomposition of Nickel Oxide. Nature 215, 1268ā1269 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151268a0
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