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Nitrogen diffusion over the (100) tungsten surface was found to be concentration independent, taking place over a barrier of 28 kcal/mole with a prefactor D(,0) of 3.0 x 10('-2)cm('-2)/sec. At the temperatures 900 < T < 1050 K necessary to observe spreading on the order of 50-100 (mu)m in the concentration profile evaporation was found to be a competing process. Therefore, the desorption kinetics of (beta) chemisorbed nitrogen on W(100) was studied by a combination of Auger spectroscopy and flash desorption. The activation energy for desorption was found to be 82 kcal/mole with a prefactor of 0.01 molecules/(cm('2)sec). A comparison with the diffusion of nitrogen on the W(110) surface is made, showing for the first time the effect of surface structure on the diffusion of a chemisorbed gas on a solid surface.","abstract_html":"Surface diffusion and evaporation from a layer of nitrogen chemisorbed on the (100) plane of tungsten has been examined using Auger spectroscopy. 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