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Topic: Why Wood's Metal has such a low melting point?  (Read 3279 times)

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Offline Wil"

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Why Wood's Metal has such a low melting point?
« on: February 17, 2008, 01:03:09 AM »
Wood's Metal is an alloy of bismuth, lead, tin and cadmiun. These four elements have have melting points ranging from 271-328'C.

So why the alloy, Wood's Metal will have such a low melting point, 71'C?
Weak metallic bond between them?
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Re: Why Wood's Metal has such a low melting point?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2008, 05:21:26 AM »

Dear Will”;

Can you try to understand: "Eutectic Point”

Good Luck!
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