Thermal conductivity of solid oxygen

This paper reports the results of the first measurements of the thermal conductivity of the α, β, and γ phases of solid oxygen over the temperature range of 1–52 K. A simple qualitative analysis was performed to explain the observed anomalies in thermal conductivity, which manifested themselves by a jump at the α-β transition, the anomalously weak temperature dependence in the β phase and an increase of the conductivity with temperature in the γ phase.