Thermodynamic Characterization and Equation of State for Solid and Liquid Lead

Abstract

A high-temperature equation of state (EoS) for the fcc phase of solid lead and liquid lead was developed herein using experimental data on thermodynamic properties, volumetric thermal expansion, compressibility, temperature-dependent bulk modulus, and sound velocity from ultrasonic measurements and melting curve. The whole totality of experimental data was optimized using the temperature-dependent Murnaghan EoS over a pressure range of 0–130 kbar. The temperature dependences of thermodynamic and thermophysical parameters were described herein using an expanded Einstein model. The resultant EoS describes well the whole set of available experimental data within measurement uncertainties of individual parameters.