Figure illustrates the distribution of the values of the formation energy, whereas Figures , and 5 illustrate scatter plots of the formation energy for the ternary alloys NbTaV at fixed values of concentrations of Nb, Ta, and V, respectively. For low concentrations of Nb, the plots in Figure have a similar shape to the ones of the binary alloy TaV in Figure (f). Similarly, for low concentrations of Ta, the plots in Figure are very similar to the ones of the binary alloy NbV in Figure (d). Finally, for low concentrations of V (say 6.25 at% V), the plots in Figure show a convex shape of the formation energy as a function of the chemical concentration of V, thereby showing a very similar trend to the one of the formation energy for the binary alloy NbTa in Figure (b). These trends are reasonable to expect, because small additions of a third new constituent to a binary alloy are not supposed to abruptly change the trend of the formation energy as a function of the chemical composition. Figure illustrates the distribution of the values of the RMSD, whereas Figures , and 10 illustrate scatter plots of the RMSD for the ternary alloys NbTaV at fixed values of concentrations of Nb, Ta, and V, respectively. For all sampled concentrations of Nb, the RMSD reaches a maximum for chemical compositions that are rich in V. The magnitude of RMSD does not show strong dependency on Nb concentration. The random mixing between Ta and V induced a RMSD in the ternary that is not significantly different from the one induced in the binary TaV. A similar trend is also observed for the NbV mixing at different concentrations of V. However, for the NbTa mixing, the RMSD significantly increases with the increasing concentrations of V.