Abstract: A flash evaporator vaporization vessel for flash evaporating metal under conditions of repeated thermal cycling having a graphite body and an outer layer of pyrolytic boron nitride having a density above 2.15 gm/cc and preferably between 2.19 gm/cc and 2.2 gm/cc.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 1996
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2002
Assignee:
Advanced Ceramics Corporation
Inventors:
John Thomas Mariner, Douglas Alan Longworth