Activities of boron in the binary Fe-B, Co-B, and Cu-B melts
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INTRODUCTION
BORON is
one of the important metalloids which is contained in many of the transition metal-metalloid type amorphous materials. Thermodynamic properties of boron in some binary alloys have been reported, I'-4] but they are restricted to narrow composition and temperature ranges and are not always consistent with each other. Also, measured properties are mostly those in solid alloys, and to the knowledge of the authors, no direct measurement has been made of the activity of boron in a melt. Since amorphous materials are generally produced through the liquid state, the activities of boron in liquid alloys are important when reactions between boron and the ambient atmosphere are likely to occur. In this study, the activities of boron in the binary Fe-B, Co-B, and Cu-B melts have been directly determined by applying the e n d measurement. Some modifications to the Fe-B and Co-B binary phase diagrams are also presented. , II.
EXPERIMENTAL
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creasing temperature. Also, some experiments were conducted by using alloys with different boron contents merely to obtain the general shapes of the liquidus lines. By this procedure, positions of liquidus lines on the temperature-emf diagram could be determined, as shown in Figures 6 and 7. It should be mentioned here, however, that the solidification of the alloys wa
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