Enthalpies of formation of liquid and solid binary alloys based on 3d metals

Continuing the papers on alloys of Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn and Fe we review in the present paper, on the basis of the model developed by Miedema and co-workers, experimental and predicted enthalpies of formation of ordered binary intermetallic compounds of Co with arbitrary metal partners. The enthalpy effects are also reviewed for liquid Co alloys. The predicted values agree quite satisfactorily with the available experimental data for binary systems of Co with a transition metal. In the binary systems where Co is alloyed with a non-transition metal larger differences are sometimes observed. Since Co with other transition metals may often form solid solutions the enthalpy of forming solid solutions is dealt with in a concise way distinguishing between magnetic and non-magnetic matrix metals.