Silver - Gold - Cadmium

Alan Prince

Introduction

Published work has concentrated on the ordering reactions between AgCd and AuCd and no data exist that give an overall view of the ternary equilibria. [62Rot] established the presence of a Heusler-type phase, AgAuCd₂, by X-ray diffraction analysis and residual resistivity measurements. The residual resistivity data were obtained for the alloy series Ag_50-xAu_xCd₅₀ and Ag_52.5-xAu_xCd_47.5. A parabolic relation between residual resistivity and at.% Ag was observed except for a pronounced minimum in the region of equal Ag and Au contents. This is suggestive of ordering.