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The portion of this work that was done at the Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, was supported by Department of Energy funds through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data, National Bureau of Standards. The portion of this work that was done at Los Alamos National Laboratory was supported by the National Bureau of Standards. Literature searched through 1983. Professor Smith is the ASM/NBS Data Program Category Editor for binary vanadium alloys, and Dr. Peterson is Category Editor for binary actinide alloys.
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Smith, J.F., Lee, K.J. & Peterson, D.E. The Th−V (Thorium-Vanadium) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 6, 369–372 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880526
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