Bulk pre-reactional transformations preceding the thermal decomposition of calcium hydroxide into oxide

The present paper is an extended abstract which should be considered as an introduction to the papers already published by us on this new topic. An extended synthesis of these papers was given in the lecture. The original information introduced here is the figure. It is a PH2O vs. T diagram which gives the pre-reactional domain between the stability domains of calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide. Chemical reactions are proposed as an interpretation of the observed pre-reactional transformations.