Two different types of age-hardening behaviors in commercial dental gold alloys.
Age-hardening behavior during continuous heating in commercial dental casting gold alloys was investigated by means of electrical resistivity measurements, hardness tests and X-ray diffraction. Two distinguishable behaviors were detected. It is considered that the difference was attributed to the amount of platinum, and the atomic ratio of gold and copper in each alloy. The phase transformations during continuous heating progressed into two steps (stages I and II). Increase of the platinum addition in gold-based alloys retards the rate of the reaction and decreases remarkably the amount of stage I.
Hisatsune
Kunihiro
K
Division of Dental and Biomedical Materials Science, Department of Developmental and Reconstructive Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8588, Japan. hisatune@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Shiraishi
Takanobu
T
Takuma
Yasuko
Y
Tanaka
Yasuhiro
Y
Luciano
Rhodora H
RH
D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry; D003722:Dental Alloys; D017097:Electric Impedance; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D006047:Gold Alloys / Q000737:chemistry*; D006244:Hardness; D006245:Hardness Tests; D008420:Manufactured Materials / Q000032:analysis*; D008422:Materials Testing; D010984:Platinum / Q000737:chemistry; D013499:Surface Properties; D013997:Time Factors; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D003722:Dental Alloys; D006047:Gold Alloys; D010984:Platinum; D006046:Gold; D003300:Copper