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Probeman

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EPMA of liquid metals
« on: July 20, 2016, 12:23:25 PM »
Has anyone here ever tried to probe liquid metals such as Ga-In eutectic?

We have a customer looking at various liquid metal to metal reactions and if I look up the vapor pressures it doesn't look problematic:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231928/pdf/am5043017.pdf

But I don't know what will happen when the liquid metal is hit by an electron beam...  has anyone tried EPMA on Ga-In eutectic liquid metals?
john

Edit by John: I found the paper attached below which gives ~10-9 mm Hg at 200 C or ~10-7 Pa.
« Last Edit: July 20, 2016, 11:00:02 PM by Probeman »
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