Open AccessThe freezing points, melting points, and solid solubility limits of the alloys of sliver and copper with the elements of the b sub-groups
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical or physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9258
pISSN - 0264-3952
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.1934.0014
Subject(s) - copper , solubility , solid solution , solid solubility , materials science , melting point , bonding in solids , crystal structure , lattice (music) , metal , metallurgy , thermodynamics , solvent , crystallography , chemistry , composite material , physics , organic chemistry , acoustics
It is well known that both copper and silver, when alloyed with many other elements, are able to form primary solid solutions of the substitutional type, in which the solute atoms replace those of the solvent upon its lattice so that the crystal structure of the parent metal is retained. The solubility limits of many of these solid solutions have been determined experimentally, but little progress has previously been made in discovering general principles or a quantitative theory. In the present paper we confine our attention to the alloys of copper and silver with the elements of the B subgroups, including those of the two first short periods.