“…The relative enthalpies for the SnTe compound, defined with respect to the enthalpy value at 300 K, were calorimetrically determined by Blachnik et al 25 and Medzhidov and Rasulov. 26 The enthalpies of formation of SnTe were calorimetrically measured by Robinson and Bever, 27 Hirayama, 28 and Vecher et al 29 By various techniques such as thermal analysis, the liquidus surface of the Pb-Sn-Te ternary system was extensively characterized by Hatto et al, 30 Muszynski et al, 31 Zlomanov et al, 32 Abrikosov et al, 33 Calawa et al, 34 Hiscocks and West, 35 Wagner and Willardson, 36 Mikhailov et al, 37 Astles et al, 38 Wagner and Woolley, 39 Linden and Kennedy, 40 Cadoz et al, 41 Laugier et al, 42 Shotov and Davarishvili, 43 Petukhov et al, 44 and Szapiro et al 45 With the aid of lattice parameter and other techniques, the homogeneity range for (Pb,Sn)Te was investigated by Zlomanov et al, 32 Calawa et al, 34 Wagner and Woolley, 39 Thompson, 46 Harman, 47 Hewes et al, 48 Dionne and Woolley, 49 and Gaskov et al 50 With a calorimeter, the enthalpies of mixing for the ternary melts were measured by Kattner et al 6 for various composition configurations at 1228 K, where the obtained mixing enthalpies generally show an exothermic behavior.…”