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Thermodynamic Considerations on Formation of Metastable Phases during Ageing of Very Hard Alloys

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Structural Thermodynamics of Alloys
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The equilibrium diagrams and the curves of free energy versus concentration corresponding to these do not predict the existence of the metastable phases which appear during ageing at low temperatures. It is therefore necessary to complement them by metastability diagrams.

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Manenc, J. (1973). Thermodynamic Considerations on Formation of Metastable Phases during Ageing of Very Hard Alloys. In: Structural Thermodynamics of Alloys. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2605-5_11

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