Abstract
A COMPREHENSIVE account of the composition, chemical and physical properties of the alloys of aluminium with manganese, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, platinum and various other metals is included in the part of “Gmelins Handbuch” under notice. The views of various authorities on the composition of the solid phases in the system Al-Mn are contradictory and are set forth in a series of diagrams for comparison. Four intermetallic compounds, Al6Mn, Al4Mn, Al3Mn and AIMn, have been identified, of which only the last-mentioned has a congruent melting point at 1287°C. These alloys are not affected by dry air, but disintegrate when the air is moist. Aluminium mixes with nickel in all proportions in the liquid state and a compound, AINi, separates at 1640° C. The slow disintegration of these alloys in moist air is accelerated by the presence of other intermetallic compounds.
Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie
Achte völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. System-Nummer 35: Aluminium. Teil A, Lief. 6: Legierung von Aluminium mit Mangan bis Rhenium. Pp. 887-1110 + xxii. (Berlin: Verlag Chemie, G.m.b.H., 1939.) 27.75 gold marks.
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Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie. Nature 146, 668 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146668b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146668b0