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Experimental investigation of the heat capacity of the ternary alloy Nb-Ge-Si at low temperatures

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The article describes several series of measurements of the heat capacity of a massive specimen of the ternary alloy Nb-Ge-Si from 4 to 35°K containing ∼8 at.% Si.

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Abbreviations

D :

Debye temperature

Cp :

specific heat capacity at constant pressure

a, b, c:

coefficients

T:

temperature

Tc :

temperature of superconducting transition

χ:

magnetic susceptibility

δ:

increment of magnetic moment

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 72–75, January, 1982.

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Korolev, Y.A., Orlova, M.P., Ponomareva, T.O. et al. Experimental investigation of the heat capacity of the ternary alloy Nb-Ge-Si at low temperatures. Journal of Engineering Physics 42, 58–61 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824992

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