compositions underwent a liquidliquid phase transition which resulted in glasses with a cloudy appearance due to spheroids of one glass in a matrix of a second glass. The two glasses were isocompositional within the limits of experimental error. Clear, brilliant, single-phase glasses were obtained from La 3 Al 5 O 12 , ErLaYAl 5 O 12 , and compositions containing >5 mol% La 2 O 3 substituted for the other rare-earth oxides. Formation of two glasses is attributed to nucleation and growth of the second liquid at a temperature below the equilibrium liquid-liquid transition temperature. Addition of lanthanum depresses the phase transition temperature below the glass transition temperature and the liquidliquid phase transition is not observed. The results are discussed in the context of first-order liquid-liquid phase transitions (polyamorphism) and formation of single-phase glass from liquids that contain a high proportion of 4-coordinate aluminum ions.

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