“…It is used to evaluate material stability, to monitor the conditions under which certain phenomena occur, to define the kinetic parameters of the processes, and to determine the effects of additives on the properties of the materials. Thermogravimetric analysis has found applications in many specific disciplines, ranging across the fields of food chemistry (Šárka et al, 2009;Rey et al, 1988), polymer chemistry (Pommerenke, 2008), characterization of the properties of explosives (Hentze and Krien, 1986), biochemistry (Olafsson and Bryan, 1970;Rodríguez-Méndez et al 1988), mineralogy (Emmerich and Smykatz-Kloss, 2002;Mielenz et al, 1953) and others. The method is a good tool for the evaluation of decontamination processes that involve heating of contaminated solid materials (Kubal and Hendrych, 2009).…”