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The C-Cr (Carbon-Chromium) System

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This work was supported in part by ASM INTERNATIONAL under grant No. FG-104-1A and in part by the National Science Foundation through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Literature searched through 1986

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Venkatraman, M., Neumann, J.P. The C-Cr (Carbon-Chromium) System. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 11, 152–159 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02841701

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