“…The earlier X-ray diffraction investigations on some Sb 2 O 3 glass system indicate that the nearest neighbor Sb-Sb distance is ∼3.4Å with a coordination number of 1.7. The third oxygen in each SbO 3 unit must take part in the linkages of the type Sb-O-As [21][22][23][24]. The presence of common meta-centers of 2 and 3 vibrational bands of As 2 O 3 and Sb 2 O 3 in the ranges 650-668 cm −1 and 770-787 cm −1 , respectively, in the IR spectra of present glasses in fact supports the formation of such linkages.…”