The surface tension of undercooled liquid cobalt has been measured by the oscillating-drop technique combined with electromagnetic levitation. The accuracy of the method was veri®ed by measurements of the surface tension of liquid nickel. The liquid cobalt was undercooled by up to 231 K (0.13T m ), and its surface tension determined to be ¼ Coˆ1 875 0:348…T T m ) mN m 1 . From this result, the viscosity, self-di usion coe cient, density and thermal di usivity of undercooled liquid cobalt were derived. Using these thermophysical parameters, the growth velocity of cobalt dendrite is calculated and shown to agree well with experimental results. Furthermore, the Marangoni number and the Rayleigh number are calculated; these increase slowly with increasing degree of undercooling.
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