TY - JOUR A1 - Stößer, R. A1 - Feist, M. A1 - Willgeroth, Carola A1 - Emmerling, Franziska A1 - Menzel, Michael A1 - Reuther, H. T1 - The 'quiet Goldschmidt' - a mechanochemical, thermoanalytical, and spectroscopic study of selected steps of the aluminothermic reaction N2 - The Goldschmidt reaction (2Al+α-Fe2O3) was investigated both under mechanical and thermal activation by employing a combination of analytical methods such as ESR and Mössbauer spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, X-ray powder diffraction, and thermal analysis (TA). Both the mechanical treatment and the TA runs under air caused the reaction conditions of 'quiet redox reactions' due to a retarding effect and enabled a reaction study in a 'slow motion mode'. This allowed to establish distinct partial steps of the integral reaction process depending on the intensity of the mechanical impact, the educt composition, the gas phase composition, and, finally, the thermal excitation in the TA runs. Particular attention was payed to the role of the gas phase and to the reaction of aluminum with differently activated oxygen species. The phlegmatizing effect was traced back to the formation of Al2O3 coverages of the Al particles. KW - Thermite reaction KW - Iron ESR and Mössbauer spectroscopy KW - Mechanochemical activation KW - Magnetic moments KW - DTA-TG KW - XRD PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2013.02.032 SN - 0022-4596 SN - 1095-726X VL - 202 SP - 173 EP - 190 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego, Calif. AN - OPUS4-29528 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -