Surface tension of liquid Cu–Ti binary alloys measured by electromagnetic levitation and thermodynamic modelling

The surface tension of liquid Cu–Ti alloys has been measured by using the containerless technique of electromagnetic levitation and theoretically calculated in the framework of the compound formation model. Measurements have been carried out on alloys covering the entire range of composition and over the temperature range 1275–2050 K. For all investigated alloys the surface tension can be described by a linear function of the temperature with negative slope. Due to the presence of different intermetallic compounds in the solid state the surface properties of liquid Cu–Ti alloys are satisfactory described by the compound formation model.