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Determination of the debye temperature θ∞ and the anharmonic component of the specific heat of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanum

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Using experimental values of the specific heat of Se, Y, and La in the temperature range 4–300°K, we have calculated the Debye temperature in the high-temperature limit and the anharmonic component of the specific heat at constant volume.

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  1. Institute of Solid-State and Semiconductor Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    Zh. M. Tomilo & N. A. Prytkova

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 424–427, March 1985.

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Tomilo, Z.M., Prytkova, N.A. Determination of the debye temperature θ∞ and the anharmonic component of the specific heat of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanum. Journal of Engineering Physics 48, 311–313 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878197

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