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This program was supported by the Department of Energy through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data, National Bureau of Standards. Additional support was contributed by: Molycorp Inc., Union Oil Co. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Reactive Metals & Alloys Corp., West Pittsburg, PA; Ronson Metals Corp., Neward, NJ; and Santoku Metal Industry Co., Ltd., Kobe, Japan. Literature searched through 1984. Professor Gschneidner is the ASM/NBS Data Program Category Editor for binary rare-earth alloys.
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Gschneidner, K.A., Calderwood, F.W. The C−La (Carbon-Lanthanum) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 7, 446–449 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02867806
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