Temperature dependence of the surface tension of alkali metals: a unified correlation

Abstract

In this work, new definitions of the normalized temperature and surface tension are proposed which result in a single plot for the surface tension of molten alkali metals. The functional dependence of the reduced surface tension on the reduced temperature can be adequately described by a straight line; the intercept and slope have been obtained using the linear regression approach. The method proposed herein predicts the values of surface tension at various temperatures with an average error of about 5%.