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DURING a study of the brittle fracture of chromium, we have made the following observations concerning cleavage in electro-polished test-pieces which were cut from ingots of argon arc-melted electro-deposited metal of high purity and fractured in bending at room temperature.
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MCNEIL, J., LIMB, H. Cleavage in Chromium of High Purity. Nature 179, 581 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179581a0
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