Abstract
Auger measurements of the surface composition have been performed on solid and molten Pb-5at%Sn alloys. They confirm the theoretical predictions that, in the absence of oxygen, liquid or solid alloys exhibit no significant surface segregation. On the contrary, surface composition measurements and simultaneous surface tension measurements clearly show that oxygen adsorption strongly affects the segregation of tin at the liquid-vapour interface. This surface enrichment is driven by the contribution of the reaction free energy and of the products surface tension.
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