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SINCE the publication of a previous note on the orientation of FeO (wüstite) films on -iron1, the complete series of oxide layers on iron has been studied. In the X-ray photograms of the FeO films on single crystals of iron, some reflections were identified as coming from Fe3O4, resulting from the partial decomposition of the wüstite phase. The pattern showed that this Fe3O4 was identically oriented with the FeO, with all planes of the same indices in the two cubic lattices parallel. The same orientation relationship held when an FeO film was grown, by reduction on a large natural crystal of magnetite (Fe3O4).
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MEHL, R., McCANDLESS, E. Orientation of Oxide Films on Iron. Nature 137, 702 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137702a0
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