THE THERMODYNAMICS OF LIQUID FE-BASED TERNARY SOLUTIONS CONTAINING NITROGEN

Ternary Fe-based liquid solutions containing nitrogen have been analyz ed in terms of a first-order statistical model. The model enables inte raction energies between the dissolved N-atoms and the matrix to be ex tracted from measured solubility data. Such interaction energies have been deduced from experimental thermodynamic data and shown to correla te well with the Allred-Rochow electronegativities of the atomic speci es in the ternary liquids.