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Melting temperature, adiabats, and Grueneisen parameter of lithium, sodium, and potassium versus pressure

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6018289
The pressure dependence of the melting temperatures of Li, Na, and K were measured to 32 kbar with accuracies in pressure and temperature of +- 0.4 percent and +- 0.25/sup 0/C, respectively. The measurements were made in a piston cylinder apparatus with a fluid pressure medium. The adiabatic pressure derivatives of temperature, (par. delta T/par. delta P)/sub s/, were measured to 32 kbar and 400/sup 0/C by a pressure pulse method. The logarithm of (par. delta T/par. delta P)/sub s/ decreases linearly with volume. The changes of (par. delta T/par. delta P)/sub s/ at the liquid-solid transitions fall within the data scatter. The Grueneisen parameter was calculated from ..gamma.. = B/sub s//T (par. delta T/par. delta P)/sub s/, where B/sub s/ is the adiabatic bulk modulus. For all three alkali metals, ..gamma.. decreases with compression in both the solid and the liquid states, and at constant volume, ..gamma.. decreases with temperature.
Research Organization:
California Univ., Los Angeles (USA). Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
6018289
Report Number(s):
UCRL-15531; ON: DE83012938
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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