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THE β-constituent of the copper-zinc alloy system containing about 48–50 per cent zinc and having a cubic body-centred crystal lattice, does not readily show slip-bands when the crystals are distorted1. On the other hand, structures resembling twins have been described2, v. Göler and Sachs3 found slip-bands on some crystals only and identified them approximately with traces of dodecahedral planes {110}. I have recently confirmed the occurrence of slip-bands agreeing with the traces of {110} planes in a number of crystals (Fig. 1), and in some cases the distortion can be accounted for completely by slip on one of these planes and in a direction parallel to the normal of an octahedral plane [111]. More often, the distortion is more complicated and other dodecahedral planes are involved. In these circumstances, the slip-bands do not represent crystal planes, but relics on the surface of the original traces of planes.
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ELAM, C. Slip-bands and Twin-like Structures in Crystals. Nature 133, 723 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133723a0
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