Interrelation between elastic and thermal properties of scandium

A unified thermodynamic approach to the description of elastic and thermal properties of a paramagnetic metal is developed. An explicit expression is obtained on the basis of the approach for the temperature dependence of volumetric modulus of elasticity and, as a result, the temperature dependence of Debye temperature Θ. The expression for the lattice specific heat of paramagnetic metals is presented with accounting for corrections conditioned by the Θ(t) dependence. A particular comparison of theoretical conclusions with experimental results is made with paramagnetic scandium taken as an example. The calculated dependence of scandium specific heat obtained on the basis of metal elasticity data is in a good agreement with calorimetric measurement results