Description of heterogeneous boiling up of superheated liquid

The results of measurements of the average expectation time of boiling up of strongly superheated n-hexane in structures from different finely dispersed powders whose smallest size is about 10 nm by using isotherms and isobars are presented. As was proposed by Academician V.P. Skripov, isotherm sections with the heterogeneous boiling up mechanism were processed with the help of Zhurkov’s formula, which is based on the thermofluctuation hypothesis of solid body strength. Thus, temperature dependences of the characteristic volume, whose excess leads to the system division into macroscopic phases, have been found for the systems studied. An approach dealing with the boiling up of superheated liquid as a fluctuation in a locally isolated microvolume is used to describe the isobars. To calculate the work of formation of the characteristic volume, its values obtained at the processing of isotherms are used. The system of equations for the temperature dependence of the average expectation time of n-hexane boiling up in isobars has three empirical constants. A rather accurate description of isobars is obtained at a proper choice of these constants. The result obtained confirms that the idea of Academician V.P. Skripov is successful.