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Accurate X-ray diffraction investigation has been made of ten amorphous alloys having the compositions (Fe0.6Ni0.4)100−x B x with x=14 to 24 and (Fe100−y Ni y )80B20 with y=30 to 70 which were obtained by rapid quenching from the melt. Using the common Fourier analysis, the radial distribution function was calculated from which the distance and its number of the near neighbour atoms were derived. The present results indicate that the atomic distribution of metallic glasses with low boron content differs slightly from that observed previously for a number of metallic glasses of transition metalmetalloid type. The compositional effect, in particular the boron concentration effect, on the structure and characteristic structural features of amorphous Fe-Ni-B alloy glasses is discussed together with the mean atomic volume and the partial atomic volume of metalloid elements using the measured density data.
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Waseda, Y., Aust, K.T. & Walter, J.L. Structural investigation of amorphous iron-nickel-boron alloys. J Mater Sci 15, 1252–1258 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00551814
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