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Binary Alloys. Aluminum-rich binary phase diagrams show tliree types of reaction between liquid alloy, aluminum solid solution, and otlier phases eutectic, peritectic, and monotectic. Table 16 gives representative data for reactions in tlie systems Al—Al. Diagrams are shown in Figures 10—19. Compilations of phase diagrams may be found in reference 41. 

Alloys are usually made by melting the components and mixing them together while liquid, though you can make them by depositing the components from the vapour, or by diffusing solids into each other. No matter how you make it, a binary alloy can take one of four forms ... 

The phase diagram for a binary alloy (Fig. A1.13) shows single-phase fields (e.g. liquid) and two-phase fields (e.g. liquid plus A). The fields are separated by phase boundaries. When a phase boundary is crossed, a phase change starts, or finishes, or both. 

S. Coriell, R. Boisvert, R. Rehm, R. Sekerka. Lateral solute segregation during unidirectional solidification of a binary alloy with a curved solid-liquid interface. J Cryst Growth 54 167, 1981. 

In the inter-alkali alloys, eutectic equilibria have been observed in a number of systems very low melting points have been determined for instance in the Rb-Na system (L (Rb) + (Na), at 82.5 at.% Rb and —4.5°C) and even lower melting temperatures have been observed in ternary systems. Binary sodium-potassium alloys, liquid at room temperature (at 25°C in a composition range of about 15-70 at.% Na, about 7-57 mass% Na), have a good thermal conductivity and a wide temperature range where they are liquid they may be used in heat-exchange systems. Their extremely high chemical reactivity must of course be taken into account. 

Figure 20.4 One-dimensional solidification of liquid binary alloy, (a) Phase diagram...

Stability of Liquid/Solid Interface during Binary Alloy Solidification... 

In Fig. 22.1a one-dimensional solidification is depicted a liquid binary alloy initially of uniform composition cq is placed in a bar-shaped crucible of length L. The bar is progressively cooled from one end, so it solidifies from one end to the other... 

Fusion, as an order-disorder transition, is the concept that fusion of a crystalline solid is essentially a change from the almost perfectly ordered solid state to a disordered liquid slate. The vacant spaces in the crystal lattice correspond lo the other component in the binary alloys, which undergo order-disorder transition in the pure form. Evidence from x-ray diffraction measurements indicates that short-range order is retained during fusion but long-range order is lost. 

Figure 14.26 (Solid + liquid) phase diagram for (xjAg + Cu) at p — 0.1 MPa. Reprinted with permission from M. Hanson and K. Anderko, Constitution of Binary Alloys, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1958, p. 18.

The successful conversion of graphite to diamond involves crystallizing the diamond from a liquid melt. The solvent most often used is nickel metal, or alloys of nickel with other ferrous metals. The reason for this success can be seen by referring to Figure 15.7, the binary (solid + liquid) phase diagram for (nickel + carbon).u8 We note from the figure that (Ni + C) forms a simple... 

Consider a binary alloy of copper and silver. At a temperature near 850 °C and an alloy composition near 80% Cu-20% Ag, the phase diagram says that there should be a copper-rich solid and a liquid. Considering the pressure to be fixed at one atmosphere but allowing temperature variations,... 

Figure 6.28. a) Effect of small additions of an alloying element on the interfacial or liquid surface energies of a non-reactive binary alloy/ceramic system for very positive and very negative values of adsorption energy, b) A very negative value of the slope of 0 implies a negligible slope... 

Filippov, E. S., and A. M. Samarin Determination of the Structure of short Range Order in liquid metal binary alloys. Soviet Phys.-"Doklady (English Transl.) 10, 1101 (1966). 

Hume-Rothery, W., and E. Anderson Eutectic Compositions and Liquid Im-miscibility in Certain Binary Alloys. Phil. Mag. 5, 383 (1960). 

Moulson, D. /., and G. A. Styles Knight shifts in liquid binary alloys containing divalent metals. Phys. Letters A 24.4, 438 (1967). 

A.N. Karavanov and V.M. Gryaznov, The liquid-phase hydrogenation of acetylenic and ethylenic alcohols on the membrane catalysts from the palladium-nickel and palladium-nithenium binary alloys, Kinetika i Kataliz 25 69 (1984). 

The Gibbs energy of the bulk of A-B binary alloy in liquid and solid phases, (jBuik, Liq aG - in Equation (1), which corresponds to (P=Liq... 

The authors have described some fundamental procedures to evaluate the solid-liquid phase relations of nano-sized particles in binary alloys from the calculation of the surface properties as well as the phase equilibira on the basis of thermodynamic databases, which are usually used for the calculation of phase diagrams of the bulk materials. In order to obtain quantitatively precise values of the melting points and liquidus temperatures in alloys, we should carry out further investigation as follows ... 

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