On the Structure of Liquid Au–Co Alloys

Abstract

The structure of liquid Au–Co alloys with 10, 20, 27, 30, 35 and 40 at% Co has been examined by X-ray diffraction. The shape of all these structure factors is very close to that of liquid gold and no additional peak and deformation in the structure factor S(Q) were confirmed. The temperature dependence of S(Q) for liquid Au-27 at% Co alloy has been also carefully investigated at six temperatures above the melting point and no anomalous behaviour was observed.