The thermochemical properties of melts of the Co-Sc(Y) systems were studied by the calorimetry method at 1873 K over the wide concentration intervals. It was shown that moderate negative heat effects of mixing are characteristic for these melts. Using the ideal associated solution (IAS) model, the activities of components, mixing Gibbs energies and entropies in the alloys of these systems, and their phase diagrams were calculated, and they agree well with the data from literature and undergo the general dependences for the Fe(Co, Ni, Cu)-d-metal systems.The alloys containing cobalt, which are the base of most heat-resistant and structural materials, are used in aircraft industry, turbine construction, and other important fields of the national economy. As magnetic and high-temperature materials, they have valuable applications in many areas. That is why goods made of them demand high-grade alloys. As the quality of solid alloys is mostly imprinted at the casting stage, both manufacturing and welding of the cobalt alloys need optimal, scientifically based techniques, oriented towards their physicochemical properties.The Co-Y alloys are promising materials with a wide range of unique physical and mechanical properties (particularly, a class of cobalt-containing compounds with rare-earth elements provides significant interest owing to their outstanding magnetic properties). It is known that multicomponent alloys based on the binary Co-Y system (for instance, Al-Co-Y) at certain compositions can be obtained in amorphous state [1,2]. To search these compositions, it is important to know the thermodynamic properties of the melts. Scandium has high durability, hardness, atmosphere-proof qualities, and even in small quantities it gives a set of those valuable properties to the aluminum-based alloys [3], which can also contain cobalt. To develop the most rational methods of obtaining and exploiting these alloys, as well as the Co-Sc(Y)-metal alloys, the precise information on their thermodynamic features is needed.
THE Co-Sc SYSTEMThe phase diagram of the Co-Sc system was for the first time constructed in [4], where the phase equilibria in the composition range 0 < x Sc < 0.8 were studied, and then it was revised in the works [5][6][7].Accordingly to [8], the enthalpy of formation of the Co 2 Sc intermetallic is -32.5 kJ/mol at., and of the CoSc 2 -26.7 kJ/mol at. These values were obtained by direct synthesis calorimetry at 1473 K.In [9] the authors investigated the mixing enthalpies of the Co-Sc system at 1873 K in the range 0 < x Sc < 0.15. At x Sc = 0.15, the integral mixing enthalpy was found to be -13.2 ± 0.3 kJ/mol.The only attempt to systematize all known thermodynamic properties of alloys of the Co-Sc system was made in the work [10], where the following concentration dependences of the enthalpies and excess entropies of mixing of these melts were obtained: However, these results are supported mostly by the data [9], which have too narrow concentration range.