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The solidification process of highly undercooled bulk Cu-O melts

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The effect of undercooling on grain structure was investigated in pure copper and alloys up to Cu ∼ 0.39wt% 0 (eutectic composition), in which grain refinement does not occur at any degree of bath undercooled when the oxygen content is less than 300 p.p.m. Grain refinement occurs in these alloys when the oxygen content exceeds about 300 p.p.m. and the undercooling prior to nucleation exceeds 100 K without quenching. Fragmentation affects primary, secondary and tertiary dendrite arms during and after recalescence. Quenching after recalescence at various solidification times retains transient grain structures. When the sample, which should have achieved complete grain refinement by furnace cooling, is quenched immediately after nucleation, the structure shows a trace of radiating fan-shaped grains originating from a single point of nucleation.

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Kobayashi, K.F., Shingu, P.H. The solidification process of highly undercooled bulk Cu-O melts. J Mater Sci 23, 2157–2166 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115783

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