Johnson Matthey Research Centre, Blount's Court, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH Gt. Britain
Department of Metallurgy, University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HS Gr. Britain
Abstract:
Sub-ambient differential scanning calorimetry has been used to determine partial binary phase diagrams for the water—silver nitrate and water—cadmium nitrate systems. Both systems are shown to be eutectic with eutectic temperatures of 263 ± 0.5 K and 256.5 ± 0.5 K for the water—silver nitrate and water—cadmium nitrate systems, respectively. The eutectic compositions are at approximately 40.5 wt.% nitrate for each system. The freezing of ternary solutions containing a fixed silver nitrate/cadmium nitrate ratio but increasing concentrations of total nitrates are explained in terms of a partial ternary system containing two binary eutectic systems and a ternary eutectic reaction. The ternary eutectic temperature is shown to be 254 ± 0.5 K.