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IT is known that X-ray line broadening in cold-worked metals appears to tend towards a limiting value as the amount of deformation increases. A possible cause of this might be self-annealing. If, as is very probable, line broadening is due mainly to internal strains, self-annealing would lead to strain release or recrystallization as soon as the internal strains reach a critical magnitude, which, of course, would depend on the temperature.
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PATERSON, M., OROWAN, E. X-Ray Line Broadening in Cold-worked Metals. Nature 162, 991–992 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162991a0
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