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A two-step process has been proposed for the preparation of refractory rare-earth diborides: high-temperature high-pressure elemental synthesis followed by argon annealing. Using this process, we have synthesized terbium, erbium, thulium, and lutetium diborides containing no more than 3 wt % impurity phases.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Matovnikov, V.S. Urbanovich, T.A. Chukina, A.A. Sidorov, V.V. Novikov, 2009, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 414–416.
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Matovnikov, A.V., Urbanovich, V.S., Chukina, T.A. et al. Two-step syntheses of rare-earth diborides. Inorg Mater 45, 366–368 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168509040062
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