Prediction of thermodynamic properties of ternary liquid solutions including metal alloys

The free-volume theory of liquid solutions formulated by Flory and also by Patterson for binary systems, has been extended to ternary systems. Numerical calculations have been performed to test the validity of the approach, for a system of organic liquids, for a system of condensed gases, and also for a system of liquid metal alloys. Satisfactory results have been obtained in all cases. Thus, prediction of properties of ternary solutions from a limited number of data concerning pure components and binary mixtures was found possible.