A simple high‐temperature infrared cell and its application to the dehydroxylation of kaolinite

Abstract

A simple method is described for making infrared measurements on solids at temperatures up to the melting point of KBr by using a fine nichrome heating coil wound directly on to the KBr disc containing the sample either in suspension or sedimented on to the surface. The usefulness of the method is illustrated by intensity measurements of the hydroxyl stretching bands in kaolinite as a function of temperature, which are compared with results obtained by the more conventional quenching method.