Experimental investigation of the Ag-Bi-I ternary system and thermodynamic properties of the ternary phases

The phase equilibriums in the Ag-Bi-I ternary system and thermodynamic properties of the ternary phases were experimentally determined by using DTA and XRD techniques and EMF measurements with the Ag4RbI5 solid electrolyte. According to the obtained experimental results, the polythermal sections of the ternary phase diagram, its isothermal section at 300 K as well as the projection of the liquids surface have been revised. The fields of the primary crystallization and types and coordinates of nonvariant and monovariant equilibriums were determined. The partial molar functions of silver iodide and silver in the alloys as well as the standard thermodynamic functions of formation and the standard entropies of Ag2BiI5 and AgBi2I7 were calculated based on EMF measurements. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.