Phase diagram and thermodynamic calculations of alkali and alkaline earth metal zirconates

The ternary phase diagrams and partial pressures of various gaseous species over the equilibrium phase fields have been calculated for the M-Zr-O (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Sr and Ba) systems by using the SOLGASMIX-PV program, which computes equilibrium composition by direct minimization of the Gibbs energy of a system. The available experimental Gibbs energy data reported in the literature for binary and ternary compounds were used for these calculations. Where no data exist, values were estimated. These ternary phase diagrams are being reported for the first time, except for the lithium system.