“…6 For theoretical discussion of the crystallization of Ni 80 B 20 glass, we have constructed the free-energy diagram of the Ni-B system using the semiempirical model developed by Miedema and co-workers 7,8 and López, Alonso, and Gallego. 9 This approach is a combination of classical elasticity theory 10 and Miedema's model for the heat of formation of alloys, 11 and has successfully been used to predict the glass formation ranges of binary 7-9,12-15 and ternary 16,17 transition-metal alloys, and of binary alloys composed of a transition metal and a nontransition element. 18 The advantage of this treatment lies in its explicit use of the factors that have been recognized empirically as being most closely correlated with glass forming ability: valence, electronegativity, crystal structure, and atomic size mismatch.…”