Mn–S system

6 accepted literature values from 2 paper(s) (experimental 4, model 2); 3 calculated phase diagram(s). 8 further extracted value(s) not accepted by the reader-agreement checks are only in the JSON/CSV.

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Accepted values by evidence class
Evidence class	Values
experimental	4
model	2

Accepted values by property group
Property group	Values
phase transition	6

Calculated phase diagrams

Binary phase diagrams calculated with pycalphad 0.11.2 from the SGTE binary collection (Hallstedt 2025, CC BY 4.0). Evidence class: model.

Assessments with a calculated phase diagram
TDB file	Assessment	SHA-256	Links
MnS-00Oht.tdb	H. Ohtani, K. Oikawa, K. Ishida, High Temp. Mater. Proc., 19, 197-210(2000). doi:10.1515/HTMP.2000.19.3-4.197	`327a611384ae600b84805454abbd0fdb2a12073a0f9faf089c645e87db8f34d8`	viewer · TDB · JSON
MnS-15Dil.tdb	D. Dilner, H. Mao, M. Selleby, Calphad, 48, 95-105(2015). doi:10.1016/j.calphad.2014.11.004	`1bae6a84eb44ebb458c32ab26e979e7f55744d2fc27ad30dc5d43d7d942da1e3`	viewer · TDB · JSON
MnS-98Mie.tdb	J. Miettinen, B. Hallstedt, Calphad, 22, 257-73(1998). doi:10.1016/S0364-5916(98)00027-3	`345407844111fa7def86ff4c462f96782891aae174813cc448670541cf04bea5`	viewer · TDB · JSON

Calculated three-phase invariants (model, mole fraction of the second component)
TDB file	T (K)	Phases at the invariant
MnS-00Oht.tdb	1927.32	LIQUID (x(S) 0.5) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5) + ORTHORHOMBIC_S (x(S) 1)
MnS-00Oht.tdb	1839.54	LIQUID (x(S) 0.00839) + LIQUID#2 (x(S) 0.47377) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-00Oht.tdb	1516.45	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0) + LIQUID (x(S) 0.00174) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-00Oht.tdb	1411.01	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-00Oht.tdb	1359.99	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-00Oht.tdb	980	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + CBCC_A12 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	1853.05	ION#2 (x(S) 0.00869) + ION (x(S) 0.49518) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	1516.18	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0) + ION (x(S) 0.00192) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	1411.01	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	1359.99	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	1285.17	MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5) + ION (x(S) 0.5834) + ION#2 (x(S) 0.99847)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	980	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + CBCC_A12 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	567.18	MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5) + MNS2_C2 (x(S) 0.66667) + ION (x(S) 1)
MnS-15Dil.tdb	384.34	MNS2_C2 (x(S) 0.66667) + ORTHORHOMBIC_S (x(S) 1) + ION (x(S) 1)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1970.41	LIQUID (x(S) 0.5) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5) + ORTHORHOMBIC_S (x(S) 1)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1844.44	LIQUID (x(S) 0.00801) + LIQUID#2 (x(S) 0.47217) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1518.71	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0.00156) + LIQUID (x(S) 0.00182) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1412.1	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0.00146) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0.00158) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1412.1	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0.00142) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0.00154) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1412.1	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0.00142) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0.00154) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1411.01	BCC_A2 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1349.37	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0.00148) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	1349.36	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + FCC_A1 (x(S) 0.00146) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)
MnS-98Mie.tdb	980	CUB_A13 (x(S) 0) + CBCC_A12 (x(S) 0) + MNS_B1 (x(S) 0.5)

Convex hulls: Materials Project DFT hull · OQMD DFT hull · CALPHAD hull MnS-00Oht · CALPHAD hull MnS-98Mie

Other properties

Phase transition (6)

Phase transition, Mn–S system
Property	Value	T (K)	Phases / composition	Class	Source	Location	Quote
Phase transition	140 K	140	magnetic	experimental	[1] Dilner 2015 cites Squire 1939 doi	p. 4 report	There are several measurements of low temperature heat capacity [57-60] and the Néel temperature of MnS as 140 K [61], 147 K [60], 152 K [59,62] and 154 K [58,63,64].
Phase transition	147 K	147	magnetic	experimental	[1] Dilner 2015 cites Anderson 1931 doi	p. 4 report	There are several measurements of low temperature heat capacity [57-60] and the Néel temperature of MnS as 140 K [61], 147 K [60], 152 K [59,62] and 154 K [58,63,64].
Phase transition	152 K	152	magnetic	experimental	[1] Dilner 2015 cites Huffman 1966 doi	p. 4 report	There are several measurements of low temperature heat capacity [57-60] and the Néel temperature of MnS as 140 K [61], 147 K [60], 152 K [59,62] and 154 K [58,63,64].
Phase transition	154 K	154	magnetic	experimental	[1] Dilner 2015 cites Bousquet 1968	p. 4 report	There are several measurements of low temperature heat capacity [57-60] and the Néel temperature of MnS as 140 K [61], 147 K [60], 152 K [59,62] and 154 K [58,63,64].
Phase transition	1373.15 K	1373.15	other	model	[2] Miettinen 1998	p. 7 report	which, ,together with Eqs. (16) and (38), give reasonable transformation temperatures for the metastable phase change L/Q of pure FeS (1105°C) and for the metastable phase change L/P of pure MnS (1100°C) with respect to the two-phase regions L+Q and L+P of the FeS-MnS phase diagram (FIG. 1).
Phase transition	1461.15 K	1461.15	liquid	model	[2] Miettinen 1998	p. 4 report	It is reminded that the optimized Eq.(16) deviates from the modified version of Eq.(13) only slightly, at 988"C (fee-bee-P equilibrium) with -226 J/mol, at 1188°C (melting point of the P phase) with -388 J/mol, at 136O'C (fee-bee-L equilibrium) with -267 J/mol and at 16OO'Cwith -2 J/mol only.

Sources

Reporting papers the values were read from (a value cited from another work names that work in its row).

David Dilner, Huahai Mao, Malin Selleby, Thermodynamic assessment of the Mn–S and Fe–Mn–S systems, Calphad 48, 95-105 (2015). doi:10.1016/j.calphad.2014.11.004
Jyrki Miettinen, Bengt Hallstedt, Thermodynamic assessment of the Fe-FeS-MnS-Mn system, Calphad 22, 257-273 (1998). doi:10.1016/s0364-5916(98)00027-3

Please cite

R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735569
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Diagrams: calculated binary phase diagrams (version 2026.10), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735859
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID-Hulls: binary convex hulls (Materials Project, OQMD, assessed CALPHAD) (version 2026.10), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23735891
R. Arróyave, J. Saal, D. Shin, ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets (version 2026.10; Version 1, machine-extracted), Zenodo (2026). doi:10.5281/zenodo.23736065

Also cite the original source of every value you use (paper_citation / paper_doi, and cited_dois for values the paper cites from earlier work); B. Hallstedt, The SGTE collection of binary datasets, Calphad 89 (2025) 102833, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2025.102833 (CC BY 4.0), and the original assessment named in each file; A. Jain et al., The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation, APL Materials 1 (2013) 011002, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812323 (CC BY 4.0); J. E. Saal et al., JOM 65 (2013) 1501, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0755-4 and S. Kirklin et al., npj Comput. Mater. 1 (2015) 15010, https://doi.org/10.1038/npjcompumats.2015.10 (CC BY 4.0). Version 1, machine-extracted: values were read by language-model readers constrained to quote their source and checked automatically, and the release was then audited on the printed pages by adversarial audits, an independent second review of fit-facing records and a preliminary human review of a frozen sample. Flags such as accepted and ESPEI-ready record screening results, not certification; known issues are listed in the release notes.

@misc{orchid_literature_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Values: thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values read from the literature}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735569},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}

@misc{orchid_phase_diagrams_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Diagrams: calculated binary phase diagrams}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735859},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735859}
}

@misc{orchid_hulls_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID-Hulls: binary convex hulls (Materials Project, OQMD, assessed CALPHAD)}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23735891},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23735891}
}

@misc{orchid_data_2026,
  author    = {Arr{\'o}yave, Raymundo and Saal, James and Shin, Dongwon},
  title     = {{ORCHID data: umbrella record of the ORCHID datasets}},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23736065},
  note      = {Version 1, machine-extracted}
}