Chemistry:Ternary phase

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Lithium niobate is a famous ternary phase. It features three elements: Li, Nb, and O.

In materials chemistry, a ternary phase is chemical compound containing three different elements. Some ternary phases compounds are molecular, e.g. chloroform (HCCl3). More typically ternary phases refer to extended solids. Famous example are the perovskites.[1]

Binary phases with only two elements, have lower degrees of complexity than ternary phases. With four elements quaternary phases are more complex.

References

  1. Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.