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Investigations have established that stable pores can exist in sintered WC-Ni hard metals. The equilibrium pore radius of a WC-Ni composite depends on the amount of the liquid phase and the size of the carbide particles.
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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 5(197), pp. 44–47, May, 1979.
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Lsovskii, A.F. Healing of a void in a sintered refractory-phase/liquid-metal composite. Powder Metall Met Ceram 18, 317–319 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00791992
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00791992