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The Cr-Te (Chromium-Tellurium) System

  • Section II: Phase Diagram Evaluations
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The present assessment relied heavily on the experiments of [83Ips], which are of high quality with the quoted uncertainty in composition being ± 0.25 in at.% Te. The starting point is the phase diagram shown in Fig. 2 to which other experimentally observed thermal effects [79Gun] can be fitted. This diagram has two anomalies, namely, 1) a gap between the supposed solidus and the liquidus, and 2) a narrow two-phase region within a broad homogeneous field. To assimilate these anoma-lies, the existence of a highly disordered phase, redesignated as Cr1-xTe, is imagined at high temperature. This has led to the prediction of a eutectoid decomposition of Cr3Te4-h at 60.2 at.% Te at a temperature very close to 455 ‡. Further, in Fig.

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Chattopadhyay, G. The Cr-Te (Chromium-Tellurium) System. JPE 15, 431–440 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02647574

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