High-pressure studies of binary alloy systems display some specific features connected with composition referring as a variable parameter. In a two-component system under pressure there are observed transformations, which do not occur in a one-component system. In particular, there is a formation of a single phase from a mixture of two phases or a decomposition of a uniform phase into two phases of different compositions. Alloys of In and Sn with neighbouring elements give us examples of these kinds of transformations. Studies on binary alloys with application of pressure provide experimental evidences that the alloy composition or electron concentration is one of the main factor for structural phase stability following from Hume-Rothery rule.
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