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The U-Zr (Uranium-Zirconium) system

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This 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 Institute of Standards and Technology. Literature searched through 1985. Dr. Peterson is the ASM/NIST Data Program Category Editor for binary actinide alloys.

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Sheldon, R.I., Peterson, D.E. The U-Zr (Uranium-Zirconium) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 10, 165–171 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881432

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