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For solutions from which complex species vaporize (Bi2, Si2, Al2O, Sb4, and so forth) new methods of determining the thermodynamic properties from mass spectrometric data are demonstrated. In order to test the feasibility of these new techniques, experiments have been carried out on the liquid Bi-Pb and Bi-Tl systems for which adequate thermodynamic data are available. In evaluating the thermodynamic properties, the ion current ratiosI Pb +/IBi2/+ andI Tl +/IBi2/+ were employed,e.g.
Measuring these particular ion current ratios eliminates errors resulting from the fragmentation of the complex vapor species in evaluating the thermodynamic properties. A dimer-monomer technique, which corrects for fragmentation, was also demonstrated. The results using these two independent approaches are in good agreement with each other as well as with previous investigations. The activity coefficients in both systems adhere to the quadratic formalism over large composition ranges,e.g.
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Fruehan, R.J. Mass spectrometric determination of activities for alloys with complex vapor species: Bi-Pb and Bi-Tl. Metall Trans 2, 1213–1218 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664254
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