Abstract

The authors discuss the application of thermodynamic solution databases, which have been constructed so far to calculate thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams, to the evaluation of surface tensions of molten alloys, salt mixtures and oxide mixtures. In particular, the relationship between the excess Gibbs energy in the bulk phase and that in the surface phase which are used in Butler's equation for surface tension was derived for molten ionic solutions as well as molten alloys. In this work, the surface tensions of some liquid binary alloys, various molten salt mixtures, which mainly consist of alkali cations and halide anions, and some molten oxide mixtures, in particular binary silicate systems, were calculated and compared with experimental values.

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