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liq·ui·dus

(lĭk′wĭ-dəs)
n.
The minimum temperature at which all components of a mixture, such as an alloy, can be in a liquid state.
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liquidus

(ˈlɪkwɪdəs)
n
(General Physics) thermodynamics the line on a graph of temperature versus composition, above which a substance is in liquid form
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Sometimes the vacuum was applied when solder approached liquidus, and at other times vacuum was applied during the entire heating cycle.
The points on the line are the liquidus of the samples 2, 3, 4 and 5 from right to left.
One representative cooling curve from a bismuth-containing alloy and an integration of that curve were used to determine the liquidus and solidus temperatures, Table 1 shows the experimentally determined liquidus and solidus temperatures measured for bismuth-containing alloys and the database values for the leaded and lead/bismuth-free alloy compositions.
There were 2 slope changes in the graph; the first occurred in the liquidus temperature and the second occurred in the solidus temperature.
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Recycled aluminum pieces were charged in to graphite crucible, and the furnace temperature was raised up to liquidus temperature (750[degrees]C).
(iii) Non-ideal property of tissue is used with liquidus and solidus temperature as -1[degrees]C and -8[degrees]C respectively [32].
The increased liquidus temperature of lead-free solders has driven processing temperatures into areas where sensitive components have significant body temperature and time limitations.
Andrew Stead is back in his traditional Fairy role this time, no doubt living up to his bubbly title of Fairy Liquidus. Trevor Berry is back to play what else but the Herald.
For successful SSM processing, the microstructure should have solid near-globular grains with a wide transition area from solidus to liquidus, as shown in Figure 1 [4].

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