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Work was supported by the Department of Energy through the Joint Program on Critical Compilations of Physical and Chemical Data, coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data (OSRD), National Bureau of Standards. Literature searched through 1984. Dr. Peterson is the ASM/NBS Category Editor for binary actinide alloys.

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Peterson, D.E. The Pu−Th (Plutonium-Thorium) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 6, 342–345 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880518

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