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236: 124:. The type of equilibrium defects in non-stoichiometric compounds can vary with attendant variation in bulk properties of the material. Non-stoichiometric compounds also exhibit special electrical or chemical properties because of the defects; for example, when atoms are missing, electrons can move through the solid more rapidly. Non-stoichiometric compounds have applications in 31: 509:
catalysed by solid catalysts. These considerations also highlight the fact that stoichiometry is determined by the interior of crystals: the surfaces of crystals often do not follow the stoichiometry of the bulk. The complex structures on surfaces are described by the term "surface reconstruction".
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and others). These materials are always iron-deficient owing to the presence of lattice defects, namely iron vacancies. Despite those defects, the composition is usually expressed as a ratio of large numbers and the crystals symmetry is relatively high. This means the iron vacancies are not randomly
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The migration of atoms within a solid is strongly influenced by the defects associated with non-stoichiometry. These defect sites provide pathways for atoms and ions to migrate through the otherwise dense ensemble of atoms that form the crystals. Oxygen sensors and solid state batteries are two
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is a small number (0.05 in the previous example) representing the deviation from the "ideal" formula. Nonstoichiometry is especially important in solid, three-dimensional polymers that can tolerate mistakes. To some extent, entropy drives all solids to be non-stoichiometric. But for practical
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scattered over the crystal, but form certain regular configurations. Those vacancies strongly affect the magnetic properties of pyrrhotite: the magnetism increases with the concentration of vacancies and is absent for the stoichiometric
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by metal oxides. The process operates via the transfer of "lattice" oxygen to the hydrocarbon substrate, a step that temporarily generates a vacancy (or defect). In a subsequent step, the missing oxygen is replenished by
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It is sometimes difficult to determine if a material is non-stoichiometric or if the formula is best represented by large numbers. The oxides of tungsten illustrate this situation. Starting from the idealized material
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ions to balance the charge. The composition of a non-stoichiometric compound usually varies in a continuous manner over a narrow range. Thus, the formula for wüstite is written as
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chemical compounds. Since the solids are overall electrically neutral, the defect is compensated by a change in the charge of other atoms in the solid, either by changing their
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depending on whether their properties showed monotonic behavior with respect to composition or not. The term berthollide was accepted by IUPAC in 1960. The names come from
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and their analogs are well known to form in non-stoichiometric proportions. The non-stoichiometric phases exhibit useful properties vis-à-vis their ability to bind
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showing the regular square array of atoms on one face (open circles, o), and with these, places where atoms are missing from a regular site to create
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The monosulfides of the transition metals are often nonstoichiometric. Best known perhaps is nominally iron(II) sulfide (the mineral
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Contrary to earlier definitions, modern understanding of non-stoichiometric compounds view them as homogeneous, and not mixtures of
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purposes, the term describes materials where the non-stoichiometry is measurable, usually at least 1% of the ideal composition.
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was shown to have merit for many solid compounds. Kurnakov divided non-stoichiometric compounds into
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in each case resulting in a material that is moved toward being measurably non-stoichiometric.
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Atkins, P. W.; Overton, T. L.; Rourke, J. P.; Weller, M. T.; Armstrong, F. A., 2010,
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J. S. Anderson, 1963, "Current problems in nonstoichiometry (Ch. 1)," in
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composition whose proportions cannot be represented by a ratio of small
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Chemical compounds that cannot be represented by an empirical formula
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sensor in automotive exhaust systems. At low partial pressures of O
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applications that rely on oxide vacancies. One example is the
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is a nonstoichiometric material of the approximate composition
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have non-stoichiometric examples; for example, stoichiometric
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Many superconductors are non-stoichiometric. For example,
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Many useful compounds are produced by the reactions of
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implies a more random distribution of oxide vacancies.
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Index

Non-stoichiometric compounds

crystallographic defects
cubic crystal system
Frenkel pair
chemical compounds
inorganic compounds
elemental
natural numbers
empirical formula
lattice
stoichiometric
oxidation state
metal oxides
sulfides
iron(II) oxide
ceramic
superconductive
battery
metal
oxides
oxidation state
wüstite
ferrous oxide
stoichiometric

inorganic compound
pyrrhotite
endmember
troilite

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