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The Cd-Cu (Cadmium-Copper) system

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This work was supported by ASM INTERNATIONAL and the Department of Energy through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data (OSRD), National Institute of Standards and Technology. Literature searched through 1987. Part of the bibliographic search provided by ASM INTERNATIONAL

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Subramanlan, P.R., Laughlln, D.E. The Cd-Cu (Cadmium-Copper) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 11, 160–169 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02841702

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