Abstract:
The thermal properties of lithium, sodium, and potassium nitrates have been studied in a gradient approximation of the density functional theory using the method of linear combination of atomic orbitals of the CRYSTAL09 program package. The long-wave frequencies and corresponding mode Grüneisen parameters are calculated. The quasi-harmonic Debye–Einstein model is used to calculate the parameters of the equation of states and also the dependences of the thermodynamic potentials, the entropy, the heat capacity, the thermal expansion coefficient, and the Grüneisen parameter on pressure and temperature. The role of external and intramolecular vibrations in the interpretation of thermodynamic properties is determined. The obtained results agree well with the available experimental data.
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