A Calculation of Transport Properties of Liquid Mercury Alloys on the Basis of Ziman’s Theory

Abstract

A calculation of electrical resistivity and of thermoelectric power has been made for thirteen liquid systems of mercury alloys, The pseudo-potential from factors by Animalu-Heine were employed for all the elements except for mercury. The form factor for mercury was modified to give a good agreement between the calculated and the experimental values of the resistivity. The partial structure factors were assumed to be independent of concentration and the extremum points of the unlike-pair structure factors are given to be simple mean values of those of the corresponding like-pair structure factors obtained by x-ray or neutron experiments .The calculated value of the resistivity agrees well qualitatively with the experimental one, although agreement is not very good in the thermoelectric power.