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The Cu−Ti (Copper-Titanium) system

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Thermodynamic calculations have been made using computer programs generously made available by E-Th. Henig and H. L. Lukas, of the Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany. This work was jointly funded by the Office of Naval Research and the National Bureau of Standards through the Metallurgy Division and the Office of Standard Reference Data. Literature, searched through 1981. Dr. Murray is the ASM/NBS Data Program Category Editor for binary titanium alloys.

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Murray, J.L. The Cu−Ti (Copper-Titanium) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 4, 81–95 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880329

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