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Editor’s Note: R. Bakish has been active in the field of electron-beam melting and refining for nearly 40 years, and since 1993 he has chaired an annual conference on state-of-the-art developments in the subject. The proceedings of these conferences, cited in Reference 1, tally more than 4,000 pages of material on developments in electron-beam processing.
For more information, contact R. Bakish, Bakish Materials Corporation, 171 Sherwood Place, P.O. Box 148, Englewood, New Jersey 07631; (201) 567-5873; fax (201) 567-6684; e-mail BAKISHMAT@aol.com.
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Bakish, R. The substance of a technology: Electron-beam melting and refining. JOM 50, 28–30 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-998-0283-9
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