Solid solutions form spontaneously between chemically similar components because mixing at the atomic scale increases entropy (configurational/mixing entropy), which lowers the Gibbs free energy of the solid solution relative to a simple mechanical (unmixed) combination of the pure end-members.
The entropy of mixing associated with randomly distributing different ions/atoms on shared crystallographic sites lowers the overall Gibbs free energy (G = H - TS)...
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