Physical properties of liquid Li-Cd alloys and of the solid compound LiCd

The liquid alloys of Li and Cd, the electrical resistivity and the Knight shift have been measured over the entire concentration range. The resistivities can be explained fairly well within the Ziman diffraction model. The Knight shift versus concentration exhibits a sudden change of slope at the composition Li 0.5 Cd 0.5. NMR linewidth measurements on the solid compound LiCd provided evidence for an appreciable mobility of the Li atoms through the lattice; the corresponding activation energy for diffusion is found to be 0.49+or-0.03 eV.