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* Physical Metallurgy4th Lecture MSE 410 D.Ast dast@ccmr.cornell.edu 255 4140 We went over these boys already, including why they have color ! Now Hg is really interesting metal, next HW HW 4-1 This is dentist related (Dentists have developed many new materials, btw, including the first superalloys). When you get a “Silver Filling” the assistant prepares a liquid to pasty metal mixture, that hardens at room temperature (RT !) in your mouth to a hard and corrosion resistant alloy. Using the all powerful internet, and you being a material scientist/budding metallurgist, find out 1. What are the ingredients in the mixture 2. Why does it harden ? What goes on here ? Hint: Some dentist do not like to drill them out. HW 1. Find the melting point of Ga and In Find the lowest temperature at which InxGa1-x melts What is the composition of that alloy ? If you are a really sharp guy you might come up with a theory why the melting point tends to go down with increasing Z ! White tin (metallic, T13.2C ) and grey (sc, T13.2) tin before. Fundamentally interesting is that grey tin has a coordination number of 4 (which predicts sc behavior if you know J.C. Phillips Theory in “Bands and Bonds in Semiconductors) but in the metallic state has a a higher coordination number (HW 1) Si has a coordination number of 4 but when converting to a liquid (Liquid Si T 1420C) has the same coordination number like Sn. Solid Si being a SC, liquid Si being metal like, the S-L transition has the highest enthalpy of all elements in the periodic table TIN “Metal on the Verge of a covalent Breakdown” HW 4-2 1. Determine the coordination number of Sn in the metallic phase. 2. Google the coordination number of liquid Si, report your finding. 3. Why is there a relation to Sn ? (Hint: Consider the ductile to brittle transition in Fe) 4. What is solid to liquid enthalpy in Kcal/mol of Si ? How does it compare to that of Fe ? These metals have s-p pairs (capable o