The heats of solution of alkali germanate glasses and crystals in the system R
2O-GeO
2 (R=Li, Na, K, Rb) were measured in 5% HF aqueous solution with an isothermal jacket calorimeter at 25°C. The relation between the heat of solution per mol of GeO
2 and composition expressed by the mol ratio R
2O/GeO
2 was investigated and was discussed with respect to the structure and bond energy of the glasses and the corresponding crystals. The results are summarized as follows:
1) The relation for glasses showed concave curvature in the composition range, R
2O/GeO
2<0.5 and showed linearity in the range, R
2O/GeO
2>0.5. The extrapolated values of the straight lines to the zero content of R
2O correspond to the heat of solution of hexagonal crystalline GeO
2, irrespective of alkali species.
The above results suggest that the change, GeO
4→GeO
6, proceeds with increasing amount of R
2O up to about the composition 0.33 R
2O/GeO
2, and the inverse change takes place by the further addition of R
2O.
These results for the glasses support the view of E. F. Riebling on structure of alkali germanate melts at 1300°C.
2) For the crystals, the heat of solution increases linearly with increasing R
2O content in the composition range from the pure GeO
2 to the congruent melting compounds: Li
2O⋅7GeO
2, 2Na
2O⋅9GeO
2 and 3K
2O⋅11GeO
2 for respective systems. The slope of the lines becomes steeper in the R
2O rich region beyond above compounds.
3) The calculated heat of crystallization showed maximum at the composition of congruent melting compound in each R
2O-GeO
2 system.
It is suggested from 1), 2) and 3) that the composition range in which GeO
6 octahedra exist is more extensive in glasses than in crystals.
4) From the heat of solution of glasses and the available thermodynamic data, the O-R bond energies in the glasses in the composition range, R
2O/GeO
2>0.5 were calculated on the basis of the method used on silicates in our previous work. The Ge-O bond energy in the glasses was also calculated as 82kcal/mol which is fairly smaller than 108 energy in the glasses was also calculated as 82kcal/mol which is fairly smaller than 108kcal/mol reported by K. H. Sun. The validity of the value obtained here was confirmed in comparison with the activation energy for viscous flow presented by previous investigators.
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