Bi – Cu (Bismuth – Copper)

Gabriele Cacciamani, Lesley Cornish, Pavlo Saltykov

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After 1990 the only relevant experimental work on this system was done by [1997Cha], who redetermined the solubility of Bi in Cu. 99.999 mass% pure Cu single crystals were sealed in silica tubes together with a Bi-Cu alloy working as a Bi vapor source (pure Bi was not used in order to avoid the formation of a liquid phase on the Cu crystals). The samples were equilibrated at seventeen different temperatures between 600 and 1040°C for reaction times ranging between 3 to 70 h, then quenched and analyzed by atomic absorption spectroscopy. The system was first thermodynamically optimized by [1989Tep, 1990Tep] and then by [1997Cha].