This is one of four volumes, each of which consists of reprinted chapters from the two-volume set , published in 1995. In some cases the authors have added a brief addendum to bring information up to date, and in other cases more recent references have been added. Following the listings of acronyms and crystal structure nomenclature, the nine contributions deal with property fundamentals, defect structures, and kinetics and phase transformations of all metal-metal compounds, both ordered and disordered, binary and multicomponent. Edited by Westbrook (Brookline Technologies) and Fleischer (Union College).