Structure of molten Ga-Te eutectic

We have made an x-ray study of the Ga-Te eutectic liquid. The phase diagram shows a series of compounds as well as immiscibility regions for two liquid phases and the eutectic. The compounds GaTe and Ga/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ melt congruently. The phase diagram is complicated, and the phase state varies substantially with the component ratio. The liquid eutectic (87 at. % Te) was examined with a high-temperature diffractometer intended particularly for liquids; Cu K..cap alpha.. radiation was used, which was monochromatized with LiF. An integral Fourier transformation was used to calculate the radial distributions for the atoms and the density; the first were used to derive the most likely shortest interatomic distances, while the second gave the mean coordination numbers.