• journal_title：The Canadian Mineralogist
• Contributor：Anna Vymazalová ; Milan Drábek
• Publisher：Mineralogical Association of Canada
• Date：2010-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.3749/canmin.48.5.1051
• journal_abbrev：Can Mineral
• issn：0008-4476
• volume：48
• issue：5
• firstpage：1051
• section：Articles

The phase relations in the system Pd–Sn–Te were investigated with the evacuated silica tube method, and characterized by electron-microprobe analysis and powder X-ray diffraction. The experimental charges were weighed using pure elements or presynthesized binary phases. The isothermal section was investigated at 400°C. Our experiments revealed the existence of three ternary phases: Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂, Pd₇₂Sn₁₆Te₁₂ and PdSnTe, unknown as minerals. Two previously reported ternary phases, “Pd₇₃Sn₁₀Te₁₇” and “Pd₇₁Sn₇Te₂₂”, were not identified in this work. The experiments presented have provided useful data concerning the ranges of solid solutions in the ternary system. The phase PdTe₂, analogue of merenskyite, dissolves up to 3.5 at.% Sn; the phase PdTe, analogue of kotulskite, dissolves up to 19 at.% Sn, and the phase Pd₂₀Te₇ dissolves up to 4 at.% Sn. The phase Pd₂Sn, analogue of paolovite, dissolves up to 4 at.% Te, and the phase Pd₃Sn, analogue of atokite, dissolves up to 0.5 at.% Te. At 400°C, the following assemblages were encountered: Sn(liq) + SnTe + PdSn₂, PdSn₂ + SnTe + PdSn, PdSn + SnTe + Pd₂₀Sn₁₃, SnTe + Te + PdTe₂, SnTe + Pd(Te,Sn)_2ss + PdSnTe, SnTe + Pd₂₀Sn₁₃ + PdSnTe, Pd₂₀Sn₁₃ + PdSnTe + Pd(Te,Sn)_ss, PdSnTe + Pd(Sn,Te)_2ss+ Pd(Te,Sn)_ss, Pd₂₀Sn₁₃ + Pd₂(Sn,Te)_ss+ Pd(Te,Sn)_ss, Pd₂(Sn,Te)_ss + PdTe + Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂, PdTe + Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂ + Pd₃Te₂, Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂ + Pd₃Te₂ + Pd₉Te₄, Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂ + Pd₉Te₄ + Pd₂₀Te₇, Pd₂(Sn,Te)_ss + Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂ + Pd₇₂Sn₁₆Te₁₂, Pd₂(Sn,Te)_ss + Pd₇₃Sn₁₄Te₁₃ + Pd₃(Sn,Te)_ss, Pd₇₂Sn₁₆Te₁₂ + Pd₆₇Sn₁₁Te₂₂ + Pd₂₀(Te,Sn)_7ss, Pd₃(Sn,Te)_ss + Pd₇₂Sn₁₆Te₁₂ + Pd₂₀(Te,Sn)_7ss, Pd₃(Sn,Te)_ss + Pd₂₀(Te,Sn)_7ss + Pd₁₇Te₄ and Pd₃Sn + Pd₁₇Te₄ + Pd.