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The work was partially supported by the United States Department of Energy funds through the Joint Program on Critical Compilation of Physical and Chemical Data coordinated through the Office of Standard Reference Data, National Bureau of Standards. Dr. Pelton is the ASM/NBS Data Program Co-Category Editor for binary alkali alloys.
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Pelton, A.D. The Au−K (Gold-Potassium) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 7, 23–25 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02874976
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