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The Fe-P (iron-phosphorus) system

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This work was partially supported by United States Department of Energy Funds through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Literature searched through 1987

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Okamoto, H. The Fe-P (iron-phosphorus) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 11, 404–412 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843320

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