The alloying behaviour, including solid solubilities of rare-earths as well as the formation and stability of various intermediate phases in palladium-rich Pd-RE systems were studied by means of the atomic size factor...The alloying behaviour, including solid solubilities of rare-earths as well as the formation and stability of various intermediate phases in palladium-rich Pd-RE systems were studied by means of the atomic size factor and the reduced transition temperatures. A strong analogy is observed in the plots of the reduced transition temperatures of Various intermediate phases against the atomic numbers of rare-earths, and the law proposed by Hume-Rothery and Raynor for dependence of liquidus temperature on atomic radius in simple alloy systems has been extended to more complicated alloy systems.展开更多
文摘The alloying behaviour, including solid solubilities of rare-earths as well as the formation and stability of various intermediate phases in palladium-rich Pd-RE systems were studied by means of the atomic size factor and the reduced transition temperatures. A strong analogy is observed in the plots of the reduced transition temperatures of Various intermediate phases against the atomic numbers of rare-earths, and the law proposed by Hume-Rothery and Raynor for dependence of liquidus temperature on atomic radius in simple alloy systems has been extended to more complicated alloy systems.