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The Al-B (aluminum-boron) system

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This work was supported in part by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF Project Nr. P7853). Literature searched through 1993.

Prof. Rogl is the Alloy Phase Diagram Program Category Editor for B-T1T2 alloys.

An erratum to this article is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02646239.

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Duschanek, H., Rogl, P. The Al-B (aluminum-boron) system. JPE 15, 543–552 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02649415

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