therefore reduced to relatively few structures: "By dealing with approximately ten ternary structural groupings we can cover the most important structures of science and technology specific to the non-metallics world. It is a remarkable instance of nature's simplexity."

Letting A and B represent cations and X an anion, these ternary groupings are organized by stoichiometric types , , and .

A ternary compound of type may be

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