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Twinning at 77° K of ‘Flash-annealed’ Niobium

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NIOBIUM is known to twin at 77° K, and for the purest reported1 the estimated lower yield stress was ∼40 kg mm−2 and the maximum tensile stress only a little higher. For specimens of this purity the lower yield stress at room temperature was ∼7 kg mm−2.

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FOURDEUX, A., WRONSKI, A. Twinning at 77° K of ‘Flash-annealed’ Niobium. Nature 199, 1284–1285 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991284b0

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