The elastic constants of calcium tungstate, 4·2-300 K

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The temperature dependences from 4·2 to 300 K of the seven adiabatic elastic constants of CaWO4 have been determined by measurements of ultrasound wave velocities using the `sing-around' and pulse superposition methods. The adiabatic elastic constants have been calculated from the measured ultrasound wave velocities by a perturbation method using just seven of the eleven measured velocities and by an iterative method using all the measured velocities; agreement has been found between the two sets of values. The complementary data on the thermal expansion and heat capacity at constant pressure of CaWO4 have been used with the present results to find the isothermal elastic constants, the heat capacity at constant volume, the Grüneisen parameters, and the Debye characteristic temperature at 0 K. The Debye characteristic temperature has been found from the heat capacity at constant volume from 10 to 300 K after subtraction of the Einstein heat capacity terms from the total heat capacity.