It is well-known that oxygen and sulpher in liquid copper play an important role in the copper smelting reaction. Nevertheless, their behaviours have almost never been established. In the present paper, in order to understand the behaviour of oxygen in liquid copper, the equilibrium relation between liquid copper and CO-CO
2 gas mixtures has been measured for temperature range from 1150° to 1250° and oxygen concentration up to 0.8%. The reaction and its equilibrium constant may be expressed as follows:
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oindentFrom experimental results, it is found that
K0′ does not remain constant as the oxygen content increases, and that the relation between
PCO2⁄
PCO and [O%] represents negative deviation from Henry’s law.
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