Critical Evaluation and Optimization of the Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Diagrams of the CaO–FeO, CaO–MgO, CaO–MnO, FeO–MgO, FeO–MnO, and MgO–MnO Systems

Abstract

All available thermodynamic and phase diagram data at 1 bar pressure have been critically assessed for the liquid and solid (rock salt structure) phases of the six binary systems formed among the components CaO, FeO, MgO, and MnO. In the case of FeO‐containing systems, data were evaluated at Fe saturation. All reliable data for each system were optimized simultaneously to give one set of model equations for the liquid and solid solutions. In systems for which the liq‐uidus or solidus curves have not been measured, they were calculated. The thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams calculated from these equations are self‐consistent and are the most reliable currently available estimates of the true values.