Free energy and electrical resistivity of molten alloys

Abstract

The free energies of mixing for molten indium-antimony, cadmium-antimony, indium-bismuth, lead-bismuth and tin-bismuth were calculated from the variation of electrical resistivity with composition employing the model of Takeuchi and Endo. Resistivities measured in this laboratory with an electrodeless technique for In-Sb alloys, together with published values for Cd-Sb, In-Bi, Pb-Bi and Sn-Bi alloys were used in the calculations. Evaluation of the resistivity data gave the composition dependence of the derivatives of the chemical potentials of the constituents and the integral molar free energies of mixing. No assumptions regarding ideal entropy were made to obtain these free energy values although a statistically random mixture of ions is presumed in the scattering model. Conclusions drawn from a comparison between the calculated free energy values and published thermodynamic data for these systems are discussed in terms of departures from regularity and the variations in the effective free electron concentration.