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A Critical Assessment of Thermodynamic and Phase Diagram Data for the Ge-O System

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A critical assessment of the thermodynamic and phase diagram data for the crystalline and liquid phases of the Ge-O system at ambient pressures has been carried out to provide a set of parameters which can be used as a basis for the calculation of ternary and multicomponent phase equilibria. The phase diagram reported by Massalski (Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, ASM International, Materials Park, 1990) does not correctly reproduce the rather limited experimental information for the system. There is some inconsistency between the rather more extensive experimental thermodynamic data for the three phases of GeO2 stable at ambient pressures.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of Increase Competitiveness Program of NUST «MISiS» (№ К2-2014-014). Alan Dinsdale is a member of the Materials Chemistry Committee of the IOM3, UK.

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Dinsdale, A.T., Akhmetova, A., Khvan, A.V. et al. A Critical Assessment of Thermodynamic and Phase Diagram Data for the Ge-O System. J. Phase Equilib. Diffus. 36, 254–261 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11669-015-0379-1

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