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IT is now quite usual to think of alloys as being solid solutions and to recognise that the atoms of solid metals are in active movement. That this must be the case, is revealed by the passage of metals to allotropic modifications in which the physical properties differ widely from those of the same metals in their normal state. It is well, therefore, that we should remember how much was done for us thirty years ago by Matthiessen in framing such views, and by Graham in showing that solid metals are true solvents for gases which move and diffuse freely in them, sometimes to reappear with gaseous elasticity.
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ROBERTS-AUSTEN, W. The Diffusion of Metals. Nature 54, 55–58 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054055c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054055c0