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An X-Ray Investigation of the Cause of High Coercivity in Iron-Nickel-Aluminium Alloys

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IT was discovered by Mishima1 that very good permanent magnets could be produced by the suitable heat-treatment of iron-nickel-aluminium alloys, of compositions near Fe2NiAl. In search of an explanation, we have made a comprehensive X-ray examination of slowly cooled iron-nickel-aluminium alloys. The results show considerable divergences from Köster's diagram2 (see Fig. 1), and shed new light on the results of earlier X-ray work on the magnetic alloys3,4,5.

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BRADLEY, A., TAYLOR, A. An X-Ray Investigation of the Cause of High Coercivity in Iron-Nickel-Aluminium Alloys. Nature 140, 1012–1013 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401012a0

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