PD-SB-TE MINERALS IN THE SYSTEM PD-SB-TE
KIM, Won-Sa and KIM, Hye-Ran, Dept. of Geology, Chungnam National Univ, Taejon, 305-764, South Korea, kimw@cnu.ac.kr

Phase relations in the system Pd-Sb-Te were investigated at 1000, 800, and 600oC, using the sealed capsule technique. The quenched run products were studied by reflected light microscopy, X-ray diffraction, electron microprobe analysis, and differential thermal analysis. At 1000oC, the solid phases Pd, Pd20Sb7, Pd8Sb3 (mertieite II), Pd31Sb12, and Pd5Sb2 are stable with a liquid phase that occupies most of the isothermal diagram. Additional solid phases at 800oC are Pd5Sb3, PdSb (sudburyite), Pd8Te3, Pd7Te3, and a continuous Pd20Sb7-Pd20Te7 solid solution. At 600oC, PdSb2, Pd17Te4, Pd9Te4 (telluropalladinite), PdTe(kotulskite), PdTe2(merenskyite), Sb2Te3(tellurantimony), and Sb and continuous PdSb-PdTe and PdSb2-PdTe2 solid solutions are stable. All the solid phases exhibit solid solutions, mainly by substitution between Sb and Te to an extent that varies with temperature of formation. The maximum substitution (at.%) of Te for Sb in the Pd-Sb phases is: 44.3 in Pd8Sb3, 52.0 in Pd31Sb12, 46.2 in Pd5Sb2 at 800oC; 15.3 in Pd5Sb3, 68.3 in PdSb2 at 600oC. The maximum substitution (at.%) of Sb for Te in the Pd-Te phases is 34.5 in Pd8Te3 at 800oC, and 41.6 in Pd7Te3, 5.2 in Pd17Te4, 12.4 in Pd9Te4, and 19.1 in PdTe2 at 600oC. X-ray powder diffraction data show the synthetic PdSb2 phase to be cubic, probably with space group P213. Testibiopalladite, ideally PdSbTe, may be a member of the PdSb2-Pd(Sb0.32Te0.68)2 solid solution series. Borovskite(Pd3SbTe4) has not been found in the synthetic system over the temperature range 1000-600oC.

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