Abstract:
According to the results of calorimetric and structural studies, the $Fm\bar3m$ phase in K$_2$NaMoO$_3$F$_3$ remains stable at least to 100 K. No ferroelectric transformation assumed earlier has been revealed in a series of Rb$_2$KMoO$_3$F$_3$ samples prepared using various technologies. Only a phase transition of nonferroelectric origin has been observed near 195 K, and its thermodynamic characteristics have been determined. An analysis of the stability of the cubic structure of molybdenum fluorine-oxygen elpasolites-cryolites has been performed in the framework of the hypothesis on strengths of interatomic bonds. The barocaloric effect in Rb$_2$KMoO$_3$F$_3$ has been estimated.