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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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