COMMENT ON PRECIPITATION IN GOLD-PLATINUM ALLOYS: THERMODYNAMICS,

Abstract

The purpose of the present note is to point out a computational error in a paper on the thermodynamics of the gold-platinum system by van der Toorn and Tiedema. It is also shown that the method used by these authors for calculating the free-energy curve from the phase diagram is, in any case, unreliable because of its extreme sensitivity to small shifts in the position of the phase boundaries.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1965
Accession Number
AD0621603

Entities

People

  • D. De Fontaine
  • J. E. Hilliard

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alloys
  • Boundaries
  • Diagrams
  • Energy
  • Free Energy
  • Phase
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Platinum
  • Platinum Alloys
  • Precipitation
  • Sensitivity
  • Thermodynamics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Systems Analysis and Design