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Results of experimental studies of grain-boundary segregation in binary alloys have been considered and analyzed. The model of grain-boundary segregation and an isotherm that allows for the possibility of the formation of complexes in grain boundaries have been suggested.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Smirnov, 2008, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2008, Vol. 106, No. 1, pp. 79–84.