In the spinel Co ₂ SnO ₄ , coexistence of ferrimagnetic ordering below T _N ≃ 41 K followed by a spin glass state below T _SG ≃ 39 K was proposed recently based on the temperature dependence of magnetization M ( T ) data. Here new measurements of the temperature dependence of the specific heat C _P ( T ), ac-susceptibilities χ ′( T ) and χ ″( T ) measured at frequencies between 0.51 and 1.2 kHz, and the hysteresis loop parameters (coercivity H _C ( T ) and remanence M _R ( T )) in two differently prepared samples of Co ₂ SnO ₄ are reported. The presence of the Co ²⁺ and Sn ⁴⁺ states is confirmed by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) yielding the structure: Co ₂ SnO ₄ = [Co ²⁺ ][Co ²⁺ Sn ⁴⁺ ]O ₄ . The data of C _P versus T shows only an inflection near 39 K characteristic of spin–glass ordering. The analysis of the frequency dependence of ac-magnetic susceptibility data near 39 K using the Vogel–Fulcher law and the power-law of the critical slowing-down suggests the presence of spin clusters in the system which is close to a spin–glass state. With a decrease in temperature below 39 K, the temperature dependence of the coercivity H _C and remanence M _R for the zero-field cooled samples show both H _C and M _R reaching their peak magnitudes near 25 K, then decreasing with decreasing T and becoming negligible below 15 K. The plot of C _P / T versus T also yields a weak inflection near 15 K. This temperature dependence of H _C and remanence M _R is likely associated with the different magnitudes of the magnetic moments of Co ²⁺ ions on the ‘A’ and ‘B’ sites and their different temperature dependence.

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