Abstract
Oxide melt solution calorimetry has been performed on iron manganese oxide spinels prepared at high temperature. The enthalpy of formation of (Mn xFe1-x)3O4 at 298 K from the oxides, tetragonal Mn3O4 (hausmannite) and cubic Fe 3O4 (magnetite), is negative from x = 0 to x = 0.67 and becomes slightly positive for 0.67<x<1.0. Relative to cubic Mn 3O4 (stable at high temperature) and cubic Fe 3O4 (magnetite), the enthalpy of formation is negative for all compositions. The enthalpy of formation is most negative near x = 0.2. There is no significant difference in the trend of enthalpy of formation versus composition for cubic (x<0.6) and tetragonal (x>0.6) spinels of intermediate compositions. The enthalpies of formation are discussed in terms of three factors: oxidation-reduction relative to the end-members, cation distribution, and tetragonality. A combination of measured enthalpies and Gibbs free energies of formation in the literature provides entropies of mixing. ΔSmix, consistent with a cation distribution in which all trivalent manganese is octahedral and all other ions are randomly distributed for x>0.5, but the entropy of mixing appears to be smaller than these predicted values for x<0.4.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 106-113 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Solid State Chemistry |
Volume | 178 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Calorimetry
- Heat of formation
- Oxide melt
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Ceramics and Composites
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry