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Study of Reaction-Bonded Boron Carbide Properties

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Results are given for a study by scanning electron microscopy of the effect of original powder composition on physicomechanical properties of reaction-bonded boron carbide and during new material structure formation in the B–Si–C system.

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Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 10, pp. 42 – 46, October 2014.

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Golubeva, N.A., Plyasunkova, L.A., Kelina, I.Y. et al. Study of Reaction-Bonded Boron Carbide Properties. Refract Ind Ceram 55, 414–418 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11148-015-9736-1

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