Many Metals Make the Cut: Quaternary Rare-Earth Germanides RE<sub>4</sub>M<sub>2</sub>InGe<sub>4</sub> (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Ir) and RE<sub>4</sub>RhInGe<sub>4</sub> Derived from Excision of Slabs in RE<sub>2</sub>InGe<sub>2</sub>
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Abstract
The formation of quaternary rare-earth (RE) germanides containing transition metals (M's) from groups 6 to 10 was investigated through arc-melting and annealing reactions at 800 °C; about 50 new compounds were obtained. These include several new series of quaternary germanides RE4M2InGe4 (M = Fe, Co, Ru, Rh, Ir), previously known only for M = Mn and Ni; additional members of RE4Ni2InGe4 extended to other RE substituents; and a different but closely related series RE4RhInGe4. Detailed crystal structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies for 20 compounds. Monoclinic structures in space group C2/m are adopted by RE4M2InGe4 (Ho4Ni2InGe4-type, a = 15.1-16.5 Å, b = 4.1-4.4 Å, c = 6.9-7.3 Å, β = 106.2-108.6°) and RE4RhInGe4 (own type, a = 20.0-20.2 Å, b = 4.2-4.3 Å, c = 10.1-10.2 Å, β = 105.0-105.3°). Both structures contain frameworks built from MGe4 tetrahedra, InGe4 square planes, and Ge2 dimers, delimiting tunnels occupied by RE atoms. These structures can also be derived by cutting slabs along different directions from the more symmetrical RE2InGe2 structure. Although the Ge2 dimers are relatively invariant, the InGe4 square planes can undergo distortion to form two sets of short versus long In-Ge distances. This distortion results from a competition between M-Ge bonding in the MGe4 tetrahedra and In-Ge bonding in the InGe4 square planes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".