Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.45, No.18, 7367-7371, 2006
Solubility of Al2O3 in some chloride-fluoride melts
Alumina solubility in chloride-fluoride melts of KCl-NaCl-NaF mixtures with ratios of 0.425: 0.425: 0.15 (I), 0.38: 0.38: 0.24 (II), and 0.35: 0.35: 0.30 (III) (molar fractions) was investigated in the 973-1123 K temperature range using the isothermal saturation method. Al2O3 solubility in the ionic melts studied was shown to be on the order of 0.06 g kg(-1) for system I, 0.12 g kg(-1) for system II, and 0.14 g kg(-1) for system III at 1073 K. All the "Al2O3 + melt" systems were found to demonstrate negative deviations from the ideal solutions. The solubility of Al2O3 in all the melts increases with the temperature increase; however, the dependences of -log N-Al2O3 versus T-1 were characterized by the slopes (2.6 +/- 0.4) x 10(3) K (I and II) and (2.4 +/- 0.6) x 10(3) K (III), which were considerably less than the slope predicted by the Shreder-Le Chatelier equation (similar to 5.8 x 10(3)).