The equilibrium phase diagram of boron nitride thermodynamically calculated by Solozhenko in 1988 has
been now refined on the basis of new experimental data on BN melting and extrapolation of heat capacities
of BN polymorphs into high-temperature region using the adapted pseudo-Debye model. As compared with
the above diagram, the hBN ⇆ cBN equilibrium line is displaced by 60 K toward higher temperatures. The
hBN−cBN−L triple point has been calculated to be at 3480 ± 10 K and 5.9 ± 0.1 GPa, while the hBN−L−V triple point is at T = 3400 ± 20 K and p = 400 ± 20 Pa, which indicates that the region of thermodynamic
stability of vapor in the BN phase diagram is extremely small. It has been found that the slope of the cBN
melting curve is positive whereas the slope of hBN melting curve varies from positive between ambient
pressure and 3.4 GPa to negative at higher pressures.
X-ray diffraction with synchrotron radiation has been used to study in situ the chemical interaction of beta-rhombohedral boron with boron (III) oxide and phase relations in the B-B2O3 system at pressures up to 6 GPa in the temperature range from 300 to 2800 K. The B-B2O3 system has been thermodynamically analyzed, and its equilibrium phase diagram at 5 GPa has been constructed. Only one thermodynamically stable boron suboxide, B6O, exists in the system. It forms eutectic equilibria with boron and B2O3.
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