Calorimetric study and thermodynamic description of Ga-Ge-Li liquid alloys

Abstract This publication contains the thermodynamic results received by the drop calorimetry method. The experiments were conducted for four different cross sections, at the temperature of 1080 K. The investigated alloys were as follows: (Ga0.75Li0.25)1-xGex, (Ge0.50Li0.50)1-xGax, (Ga0.50Li0.50)1-xGex, (Ga0.25Li0.75)1-xGex. The mixing enthalpy changes measured for all four cross sections of the Ga-Ge-Li system are characterized by negative deviations from the ideal solutions. The Muggianu model with the ternary interaction parameters was applied to elaborate the experimental data of the mixing enthalpy change with the use of the optimized thermodynamic parameters of the binary systems available in the literature.