Liquid-vapour transition in fluid metals: application to sodium at low pressures

1 April 1977

journal article
Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics

Vol. 7 (4) , 563-567
https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4608/7/4/008

Abstract

The Gibbs-Bogoliubov description of liquid metals together with ideal gas theory for the vapour phase is used to calculate the liquid-vapour coexistence characteristics of sodium. It is found that the method is accurate for pressures below about one atmosphere.

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