High electrical conductivity of a solid phase in the SnI2-AgI system

Phase equilibrium diagram for the tin(II) iodide-copper(I) iodide system

“…As concerns the alkali metal iodides, the phase diagrams of the LiI-CuI and NaI-CuI systems are not known. Similarly, the HgIz-CuI phase diagram has not been described, though CuzHgI 4 was reported as far back as in the 19th century [2], and has been studied many times during the last forty years with regard to its physicochemical properties.The present phase equilibrium studies on the SnIz-CuI system comprise a continuation of our work on the phase diagrams of the binary systems of SnBr/ with AgBr [3] or with CuBr [4] and ofSnI z with AgI [5,6]. It may be presumed that, together with the chloride systems for these pairs of cations, which were investigated earlier [7][8][9][10][11], a knowledge of the phase diagrams for the complete series of these systems would reveal the more general trends that appear on passing from chlorides to iodides and from copper(I) to silver ions.…”