Authors had reported already that the spreading of BAg alloy on mild and stainless steels could be improved by adding small amounts of NiCl
2 or FeCl
3 to KCl-LiCl cut. salt flux. In this study, then, when a 18Cr-8Ni stainless steel plate was pre-coated with the mixed salt fluxes and was heated, the corrosion products formed on the plate surface were analized by SEM and X-ray diffractometer. On the other hand, a spreading test of BAg-5 on the same treated plate was done, using only KCl-LiCl eut. salt flux.
From these experiments, the effect of used fluxes on the spreading of BAg-5 was concluded as follows;
1) The addition of NiCl
2 to KCI-LiCl eut. salt promotes the dissolution of chromium and iron from the stainless steel and the resultant corroded surface becomes spongy intermetallic compound, FeNi
3, furthermore, the particles layers of nickel were precipitated on the compound owing to electrochemical reaction.
2) The addition of FeCl
3 to the eut. salt also promotes the corrosion of stainless steel and the surface becomes the spongy compound, FeNi
3.
3) The spread area of BAg-5 on the particles layer of nickel was considerably larger than that on the compound, FeNi
3. This result showed that the wettability of intermetallic compound, FeNi
3, is not superior to the each wettability of both constituent elements, Fe and Ni.
4) The spread area of BAg-5 on the particles layer of nickel was larger than that on a nickel plate, because the former was larger than the latter in a real surface area to be wet. Furthermore, since the spread area depended on the total surface area of particles distributed on the most outside layer, the amount of NiCl
2 necessary to form mono-particle layer was considered to be about 10wt%.
5) "De-chromiumnisztion" phenomenon on the surface of stainless steel may be one of the important effect of flux used.
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