Experimental Study of the Mg-Ni-Y System at 673 K Using Diffusion Couples and Key Alloys

Three solid-solid and two solid-liquid diffusion couples together with 32 key samples were used to construct the isothermal section of the Mg-Ni-Y system at 673 K. The present investigation revealed 12 ternary intermetallic compounds. Crystal structures of two ternary compounds τ1 (Gd4RhIn prototype with lattice parameter of a = 1.3666 nm) and τ2 (Mo2FeB2 prototype with lattice parameters of a = 0.7395 nm and c = 0.3736 nm) were determined. The phase relations and ternary solubility of the binary and ternary compounds at 673 K were determined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), wave dispersive X-ray spectrometer (WDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis.