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Electrical contact materials: Ways of reducing the consumption of tungsten and precious metals — A review

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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 3(243), pp. 69–80, March, 1983.

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Minakova, R.V., Braterskaya, G.N. & Teodorovich, O.K. Electrical contact materials: Ways of reducing the consumption of tungsten and precious metals — A review. Powder Metall Met Ceram 22, 217–226 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00793923

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