ABSTRACT THE vitrification of phosphoric acids is relatively easy, a glass often being formed simply on cooling from the liquid melt. Special procedures, however, are required to crystallise

these materials. The glass transition temperature, _T_g, is the temperature above which there is relatively rapid molecular motion; below _T_g translational motion of molecules is

inhibited. In standard texts1 it is stated that the glass transition temperature of orthophosphoric acid, H3PO4, is −121 °C. The source of the determination is not always cited but it seems

to be that of Kobeko _et al._2 who determined _T_g from measurements of the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity of phosphoric acid. Although published almost 40 yr ago

several different ionic or molecular processes may be responsible for the transfer of electrical charges. Thus, an unambiguous determination of a glass transition from such data may be far

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