MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SOME LIQUID METALS, MOLTEN SALTS, AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

1962 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman H. Nachtrieb
1988 ◽  
Vol 157 (Part_2) ◽  
pp. 587-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio Itami ◽  
Mitsuo Shimoji ◽  
Kenji Shimokawa

Various physical properties of alkali carboxylates can be used to study precursor effects immediately below or above their melting points. The present paper describes unusual pre-transition behaviour observed in the magnetic susceptibility of molten n -butyrates and isovalerates. This takes the form of a transitory enhancement of diamagnetic susceptibility, by nearly 10% in some cases, when the isotropic melt is cooled through the clearing point and into the mesophase region while a magnetic field (up to 1 T(10 4 G)) is applied. No corresponding changes are observed on taking the salt through the same temperature range but in the inverse direction. Again, no corresponding change is observed with an alkali carboxylate which shows no mesophase melting transition. Present findings can be accounted for on the assumption of cluster formation in the molten salts as these approach their upper melting points, which is also indicated by other evidence. The (transient) enhancement of molecular diamagnetism in this region of temperature may also indicate transient perturbations in the actual cation-anion binding near the transition temperature.


Author(s):  
S. Jiang ◽  
M. Perez-Ferragut ◽  
Z. Fu ◽  
J. K. Hohorst

In recent years, organizations both at home and abroad are actively carrying out a research on the Molten Salt Reactor systems (MSRs). For example, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), is currently involved in the design and development of a 10MWth Solid Fuel Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR-SF1). SINAP started their analysis of TMSR using an earlier version of RELAP/SCDAPSIM, MOD4.0. MOD4.0 included models and correlations for molten salts but was unable to treat molten salts in the presence of non-condensable gases. Since that time SINAP and ISS have worked in parallel to extend the models and correlations for such systems. The SINAP modified code, using SINAP proprietary models and correlations, is described in the “open literature” under the name RELAP5-MSR. More general, but comparable, models developed by ISS for liquid metals/salts in the presence of non-condensable have been incorporated into RELAP/SCDAPSIM/MOD4.1. This extended option is currently being implemented for Li-Pb, Pb-Bi, molten salts, and Na.


1973 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1046-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Takahashi ◽  
Masao Shimizu

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