Systematic investigations on the vaporization and gas phase chemistry
of metal halides and their quasi-binary systems were carried out to su
pport the development of metal halide lamps. Homo- and heterocomplexes
were identified and the thermochemical data describing the stability
of the complexes determined. This paper summarizes the thermochemical
data on the complex stabilities. The data were used for thermochemical
computations to elucidate the high temperature chemistry in metal hal
ide lamps.