• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Röntgenbeugungsuntersuchung an geschmolzenem Selen und Tellur sowie an Legierungen des Systems Selen—Tellur/ X-ray Diffraction Study of Molten Selenium, and Tellurium and of Molten Selenium — Tellurium-Alloys
  • Contributor: Hoyer, W.; Thomas, E.; Wobst, M.
  • imprint: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 1975
  • Published in: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/zna-1975-1220
  • ISSN: 1865-7109; 0932-0784
  • Keywords: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ; General Physics and Astronomy ; Mathematical Physics
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> At temperatures just above the melting point molten Selenium seems to be a mixture of long chains and eight-membered rings. With increasing temperature the number of rings and the average chain length decrease. At 460 °C the average chain length lies in the range of 10 atoms.</jats:p> <jats:p>In a slightly supercooled Tellurium-melt the number of first neighbours is two. The atoms are arranged in chains. Selenium rich Se-Te-alloy-melts are built up of mixed chains. It seems to be possible, that a smaller part of atoms forms Se<jats:sub>6</jats:sub>Te<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> rings. At Tellurium concentrations higher than approximately 50 at.-% the chainlike structure with two next nearest neighbours changes to a disturbed Arsen-like short range order. The number of electrons in the first coordination shell, the short range order parameter introduced by Cowley and the partial coordination numbers show that Se-Te-alloys are of the "solution system" type, but in the whole concentration range for each atom there is a tendency to have "strange coordination".</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access