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Investigation of solutions of metals in molten salts has a long history extending back nearly 200 years to the work of Sir Humphrey Davy. For a long time, however, it was unclear whether these systems were true solutions or simply colloidal suspensions of metal particles in more of less pure molten salts. The pioneering experimental studies of Aten[1] in the early 20th century provided the first indications that, in fact, metals can form true, microscopically homogeneous solutions with their salts. The issue was finally put to rest in the 1950’s and early 1960’s by Bredig and coworkers who carried out comprehensive investigations of the phase diagrams and fundamental physical properties of a large number of metal/molten salt systems. Much of the work of this period was motivated by the molten salt reactor program in the United States and is summarized in Bredig’s classic 1964 review[2].
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Warren, W.W. (2002). Electronic Properties of Metal/Molten Salt Solutions. In: Gaune-Escard, M. (eds) Molten Salts: From Fundamentals to Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0458-9_2
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