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Using methods of x-ray diffraction analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, dilatometry, and transmission electron microscopy, we have investigated the initial stages of decay of the amorphous phase in a bulk metallic glass based on zirconium. We found that crystallization of the bulk metallic glass proceeds in several stages, where in the first stage the bulk conversion effect is equal to more than 1.6%, or about 80% of the total bulk crystallization effect. We showed that the first stage of decay of the amorphous phase in the bulk metallic glass Zr29Ti11Cu60 leads to the formation of a nanocrystalline structure with a grain size of 1–5 nm. We have analyzed the change in the shape of the diffraction maximum during the formation of the very fine nanocrystalline structure.
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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 1129–1133 (July 1999)
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Abrosimova, G.E., Aronin, A.S., Gurov, A.F. et al. Initial stages in the decay of the amorphous phase in the bulk metallic glass Zr-Cu-Ti. Phys. Solid State 41, 1027–1031 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130930
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