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Influence of oxygen contamination on the surface tension of liquid tin

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The surface tension of liquid tin has been measured by the sessile-drop technique as a function of temperature, in the range 232 ⩽T (°C) ⩽ 800 and under different atmospheres. It is shown that oxygen strongly affects the surface tension values and that, under “nominally” very clean conditions, a considerable scatter of experimental results occurs. This scatter can be explained by taking into account kinetic factors, especially those related to the gaseous fluxes around the molten drop. By this procedure, a number of experimental results can be singled out, which corresponds to “clean” surface conditions. On the basis of these results, the following expression for surface tension politherm is proposed: σ(mN m−1 = 581-0.13) (t-232).

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Passerone, A., Ricci, E. & Sangiorgi, R. Influence of oxygen contamination on the surface tension of liquid tin. J Mater Sci 25, 4266–4272 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00581083

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