Surface tension of two weakly interacting liquid alloys

Abstract

We report surface tension of two weakly segregating alloys Al-Ga and Cd-In in molten state at temperatures of 1023 K and 800 K respectively using different approaches. Our analysis based on different assumptions reveal that the metal with lower surface tension tends to segregate on the surface of molten alloy and the metal with higher surface tension tends to segregate in the bulk. Different approaches predict consistency in the values of the surface tension of Al-Ga liquid alloy that increases with increase in bulk concentration of aluminium in the alloy with all values smaller than the ideal values. In Cd-In alloy the models reveal no such regularity in the surface tension; it varies slightly from the ideality. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bibechana.v9i0.7183 BIBECHANA 9 (2013) 103-112

Keywords

• Concentration
• Surface tension
• Surface segregation
• Order energy parameter
• Activity coefficients