On the structure of the molten mixture Ag(I0.3Br0.7)

We present neutron diffraction measurements of the total structure factor of the molten salt mixture Ag(I0.3Br0.7) at 650 °C, measured by using the high intensity total scattering time-of-flight spectrometer, HIT-II, at the spallation neutron source of the Neutron Science Laboratory in the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan. We have compared the experimental data with molecular dynamics simulations using Vashishta–Rahman type potentials. Within the known constraints of pairwise rigid ion potentials, the results of the simulations are in fair agreement with experiment. We also present results using a linear combination of the experimental and molecular dynamics simulations of the structure factors of the AgI and AgBr melts. The latter are in somewhat better agreement with experiment.