Silver – Gold – Copper

Alan Prince⁺, updated by Tamara Velikanova and Mikhail Turchanin

Literature Data

This important ternary system, acting as the basic phase diagram for an understanding of gold dental alloys, has been studied for the past 94 years. A detailed assessment of the literature has been made by [1988Pri1, 1988Pri2] with respect to the liquidus and solidus surfaces, the solvus surface arising from the solid state miscibility gap in the Ag-Cu system, and the ternary equilibria at low temperatures arising from the ordered phases in the Au-Cu system.