Thermal investigations of SmFeTeO6 and SmCrTeO6 compounds

Abstract

SmFeTeO6 and SmCrTeO6 were synthesized by heating the respective oxides in molar quantities and characterized by X-ray technique. Thermogravimetric studies suggested that SmFeTeO6 and SmCrTeO6 vapourize incongruently according to the reactions: $$ \begin{aligned} {\text{SmFeTeO}}_{ 6}{({\text{s}})} & \to {\text{SmFeO}}_{ 3} {( {\text{s}})} + {\text{TeO}}_{ 2} {( {\text{g}})} + \left( { 1/ 2} \right){\text{O}}_{ 2}{( {\text{g}})} \\ {\text{SmCrTeO}}_{ 6} {( {\text{s}})} & \to {\text{SmCrO}}_{ 3} {( {\text{s}})} + {\text{TeO}}_{ 2}{( {\text{g}})} + \left( { 1/ 2} \right){\text{O}}_{ 2}{( {\text{g}})}. \\ \end{aligned} $$ X-ray diffraction data of both the compounds have been indexed on the hexagonal system. Partial pressures of TeO2(g) were measured over SmFeO3(s) and SmCrO3(s) by employing the Knudsen effusion mass loss technique. The standard Gibbs free energy of formation of (ΔfG°) SmFeTeO6(s) and SmCrTeO6(s) were obtained from partial pressures and represented by the following relations: $$\Updelta_{\text{f}} G^{\circ} \left( {{\text{SmFeTeO}}_{6}{( {{\text{s}},\,T})}} \right) \pm 2 5\,{\text{kJ}}\,{\text{mol}}^{ - 1} = - 1 5 1. 6 5+ 0. 1 5\left(T \right)\quad \left( 1 ,0 90{-} 1,1 80\,{\text{K}} \right) \\ \Updelta_{\text{f}} G^{\circ } \left( {{\text{SmCrTeO}}_{ 6} {( {{\text{s}},\,T})}} \right) \pm 2 5\,{\text{kJ}}\,{\text{mole}}^{ - 1} = - 2 5 2. 8 6+ 0. 1 2(T)\quad \left( { 1,100 {-} 1 , 1 7 5\,{\text{K}}} \right).$$