  Structural, thermal, resistive and magnetic properties of melt quenched Bi
0.88 Sb 0.12 alloys are reported. The samples are heated at three different
temperatures, followed by rapid quenching in liquid nitrogen. Large temperature
difference between liquidus and solidus lines, led to microscopic
in-homogeneity in the alloy. The effect of quenching from different
temperatures in polycrystalline Bi 0.88 Sb 0.12 alloy has been studied. The
parameters such as strain, unit cell volume, and resistivity are found to
increase with temperature. Thermal variation of resistivity depicts non
monotonic temperature dependence. The total negative susceptibility increases
and band gap of semiconducting Bi 0.88 Sb 0.12 samples decreases with
increasing temperature.
