The activity of zinc oxide in multicomponent slags has been investigated. Activities were determined experimentally Toy equilibrating iron saturated brasses with slags containing iron oxide. Required activities in the Zn-Cu-Fe system were obtained from experimental iron saturation data and available information on the Zn-Cu and Cu-Fe systems. Where measurement was not possible, thermodynamic analyses of slag systems were carried out. Rigid activity patterns in the ZnO-SiO₂, ZnO-FeO-SiO₂, ZnO-CaO-SiO₂ and ZnO-FeO-CaO-SiO₂ systems have been developed from experimental and analytical data. Agreement with the activity data of Bell, Turner and Peters on ZnO-FeO-CaO-SiO₂ and Okunev and Bovykin on ZnO-FeO-SiO₂ type slags indicates that the present measurement technique provides a good basis for industrial slag investigations. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Mining Engineering, Keevil Institute of / Graduate

The activity of ZnO in ternary Zno-CaO-SiO₂ slags has been measured at 1300 C by equilibration with copper rich brass and low oxygen potential gas utilizing the following reversible galvanic cell: Pt I H₂,H₂O |0.85Zr0₂-0.15CaO | 0₂(Air)|Pt Thermodynamic data on the component binaries was employed to calculate the excess free energy of the ternary system and the isoactivity patterns of the three components at 1600 C with respect to the metastable pure liquid standard states. An estimate of 6 E.U. was made for the entropy of fusion of ZnO. The measured activities are in good agreement with the calculated values. The proposed excess free energy contours in the Zno-CaO-SiO₂ ternary are similar in shape to those calculated in a similar manner for the FeO-CaO-SiO₂ system. Also the calculated zinc oxide isoactivity figure resembles the ferrous oxide isoactivity diagram. This zinc oxide isoactivity pattern projects towards the lime orthosilicate composition. This shape is characteristic of FeO, but in the case of ZnO the projection is less pronounced. Both these observations are in keeping with the slightly more basic behaviour of zinc oxide. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Materials Engineering, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Cathy W. Levenson, Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Dept. of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed May 18, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-63). Also available via the Internet.