“…On the basis of experimental structural data 16,17 ten system components were considered in the ZnO-Nb 2 O 5 -P 2 O 5 thermodynamic model of Shakhmatkin and Vedishcheva -ZnO (Z), Nb 2 O 5 (Nb) , P 2 O 5 (P), ZnP 4 O 11 (ZP2), Zn(PO 3 ) 2 (ZP), Zn 2 P 2 O 7 (Z2P), Zn 3 (PO 4 ) 2 (Z3P), NbO(PO 3 ) 3 (1/2NbP3), (NbO) 4 (P 2 O 7 ) 3 (Nb2P3), and NbOPO 4 (1/2NbP). The equilibrium molar amounts of SVTDM system components recalculated for xNb 2 O 5 •50ZnO•(50x)P 2 O 5 , ( x = 0 , 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 12 ) glasses from the results of structural analysis published in 16,17 are summarized in Table 1 together with the structural groupings represented by the Q n units (i.e. tetrahedron PO 4 with n bridging oxygen atoms) of considered system components.…”