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Effect of Alloying Elements on the Electrical Resistivity of Aluminum Alloys

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The electrical resistivities of aluminum alloys containing Cu, Ge, Zn, Ag, Cd, and Mg were found to increase linearly with the atomic percentage of the solute atoms. Application of Linde’s rule to these data suggests that each aluminum atom contributes 2.5 electrons to the metallic bond.

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    A. T. Robinson (Research Engineer) & J. E. Dorn (Professor of Physical Metallurgy)

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Discussion on this paper, TP 3066E, may be sent, 2 copies, to AIME by Aug. 1, 1951. Manuscript, Dec. 18, 1950; revision, March 16, 1951. Detroit Meeting, October 1951.

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Robinson, A.T., Dorn, J.E. Effect of Alloying Elements on the Electrical Resistivity of Aluminum Alloys. JOM 3, 457–460 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397330

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