Adiabatic compressibility along the two-phase saturation line for the molten (LiF + CsCl) system

Abstract

The adiabatic compressibility, β, of the immiscible liquid mixture (LiF + CsCl) along the saturation line was experimentally investigated in the temperature range from the melting point to the critical mixing temperature using sound velocity values, u, measured by the pulse method, and density quantities, ρ, determined using the hydrostatic weight procedure based on the relationship β = u−2ρ−1. The coefficients of the temperature dependencies for the compressibility, sound velocity and density of the upper and lower equilibrium phases have opposite signs because of the superposition of the thermal motion intensity of the ions and the change in the phase compositions. The differences Δβ, Δu and Δρ for the equilibrium phases decrease with temperature elevation. The temperature dependencies of the compressibility, sound velocity and density difference are described using the empirical equations Δβ ≈ (Tc − T)1.004, Δu ≈ (Tc − T)1.003 and Δρ ≈ (Tc − T)0.504.