“…Each intermediate phase decomposes peritectoidally (at successively higher temperatures as x decreases) to form, in most cases, another ordered phase with lower x and the disordered, grossly non-stoichiometric e phase, or, in the case of M7012, two distinct non-stoichiometric phases, ~ and a, whose 'average' structures appear to be fluorite type and rare-earth C type respectively (Bevan, 1955;Brauer & Gradinger, 1954;Bevan & Kordis, 1964;Hyde & Eyring, 1965;Hyde, Bevan & Eyring, 1966). The intermediate phases constitute a homologous series of formula MnOzn-2.…”