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The Cu−O (Copper-Oxygen) system

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  1. Department of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Alabama, 35486, University, AL

    J. P. Neumann

  2. Department of Metallurgical and Mineral Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1509 University Avenue, 53706, Madison, WI

    T. Zhong & Y. A. Chang

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The authors with to thank the International Copper Research Association, Inc., New York, for financial support of this work. Literature searched through 1982.

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Neumann, J.P., Zhong, T. & Chang, Y.A. The Cu−O (Copper-Oxygen) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 5, 136–140 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868948

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