“…These results are generally consistent with the magnetic data previously reported for other REM x Ge 2 (M ¼ Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) compounds with the CeNiSi 2 -type structure [14,15,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Most of these compounds are antiferromagnetic at similarly low temperatures (notable exceptions are PrNiGe 2 and NdNiGe 2 , which are ferromagnetic) and exhibit effective magnetic moments close to the free-ion RE 3+ values (except for the Mn-containing compounds, where local Mn moments are observed) [15].…”