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The Fe−Mo (Iron−Molybdenum) system

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Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams

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When this evaluation was performed, the author was at the Division of Physical Metallurgy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The author wishes to thank Professor Mats Hillert for valuable advice and stimulating discussions. The author is also indebted to Dr. B. Sundman for helpful suggestions and for the special improvement in the optimization program used in this research. All phase diagrams in this report have been calculated with a computer program developed by Bo Jansson [79Jan] at the Division of Physical Metallurgy. A grant from the Swedish Institute is gratefully acknowledged. This evaluation is an expanded and updated version of the Fe−Mo assessment that originally appeared in theCalphad Journal (see [82Fer]).

This evaluation was carried out at the Division of Physical Metallurgy of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02880313.

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Guillermet, A.F. The Fe−Mo (Iron−Molybdenum) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 3, 359–367 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02869315

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