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Calculated Thermodynamic Data and Metastable Immiscibility in the System SiO 2 ‐Al 2 O 3
Author(s) -
RISBUD SUBHASH H.,
PASK JOSEPH A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1977.tb15525.x
Subject(s) - spinodal decomposition , metastability , mixing (physics) , phase diagram , thermodynamics , phase (matter) , materials science , miscibility , calphad , chemistry , polymer , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , composite material
Thermodynamic data on activities, activity coefficients, and free energies of mixing in SiO 2 ‐Al 2 O 3 solutions were calculated from the phase diagram. Positive deviations from ideal mixing in the thermodynamic data suggest a tendency for liquid immiscibility in both SiO 2 ‐ and Al 2 O 3 ‐rich compositions. The calculated data were used to estimate regions of liquid‐liquid immiscibility. A calculated metastable liquid miscibility gap with a consolute temperature of ∼1540 ° C at a critical composition of ∼36 mol% Al 2 O 3 was considered to be thermodynamically most probable; the gap extended from ∼11 to °49 mol% Al 2 O 3 at 1100 ° C. SiO 2 ‐rich glass compositions showed evidence of glass‐in‐glass phase separation when examined by direct transmission electron microscopy.