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A PROBLEM in X-ray diffraction has been the diffusion of the X-ray reflexions from a metal which has been subjected to plastic deformation. A crucial experiment has long been called for which would indicate clearly what modifications in structure of the deformed metal are mainly responsible for the effect. The method usually suggested is indecisive : it involves a laborious measurement of changes scarcely greater than experimental error, and, as recent publications have shown, gives different results in the hands of different workers1,2. It may be of interest, therefore, to record an alternative method which, for a number of metals, including iron and steel, appears to solve the problem in a simple direct manner.
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WOOD, W. New X-ray Evidence on the Nature of the Structural Changes in Cold-worked Metals. Nature 151, 585 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151585a0
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