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Title: Stability range of MoC (hP2). II. Thermodynamic properties of generalized Lewis acid-base intermetallics

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6976723

The ..gamma..-MoC phase with the hexagonal WC structure was prepared without the presence of metal stabilizers at temperatures below 1000/sup 0/C. This phase was found to be thermodynamically stable at low temperatures and decomposed to Mo/sub 2/C and graphite at 1400 K. Using equilibrium and thermodynamic data, the thermodynamic quantities of this phase were calculated as S/sup 0//sub 298//R = 4.41 +/- 0.3 and ..delta..H/sub 298//sup 0//R = -3430 +/- 800 K. Part II. Oxide equilibration and solid-state galvanic cell experiments were used to study thermodynamic properties of binary Lewis acid-base stabilized transition metal alloys. The activity of vanadium was determined in alloys of vanadium with platinum group metals such as Rh, Pd and Ir at 1000/sup 0/C. The activities of titanium in titanium-iridium alloys and of niobium in Nb/sub 2/Ir were determined at 1400/sup 0/C. The ternary phase diagram of V-Pd-O at 1000/sup 0/C was obtained. Based on the vanadium-palladium results, a partial titration curve of palladium by vanadium was constructed. The excess partial molar Gibbs free energy of vanadium at infinite dilution was found to be -36.4 kcal mol/sup -1/ at 1000/sup 0/C. The results of this study are in agreement with the predictions of Brewer's theory of transition metal alloy acid-base behavior.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
6976723
Report Number(s):
LBL-25340; ON: DE88011941
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis. Portions are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English