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Adiabatic compressibility of biphasic salt melts

  • Victor P. Stepanov EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: June 9, 2021
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A Volume 76 Issue 8

Abstract

The adiabatic compressibility along the two-phase saturation line was calculated for nine molten immiscible mixtures, namely, LiF + KBr, LiF + CsCl, LiF + RbBr, LiF + KI, LiF + CsBr, LiF + RbI, LiF + CsI, LiCl + AgBr, and NaCl + AgI, using experimental data on the sound velocity and density. It is shown that the ratio of compressibility of the equilibrium phases depends significantly on the sizes of the mixed ions. The dependence of the changes in compressibility in the distance and in the vicinity of the critical mixing point on the characteristics of the chemical bond between the ions is discussed.

Keywords: adiabatic compressibility; critical properties; immiscibility; molten salts
Corresponding author: Victor P. Stepanov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of High-Temperature Electrochemistry, Akademicheskaya str., 20, Yekaterinburg, 620137, Russia, E-mail:

  1. Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-02-11
Revised: 2021-05-18
Accepted: 2021-05-19
Published Online: 2021-06-09
Published in Print: 2021-08-26

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