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Work was supported by the International Copper Research Association, Inc. (INCRA) 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 Bureau of Standards. Thermodynamic calculations were done in part with the use of the FACT computer program, made available by Drs. A. D. Pelton, W. T. Thompson, and C. W. Bale of McGill University/Ecole Polytechniqué. Literature searched through 1982. Professor Laughlin and Dr. Chakrabarti are the ASM/NBS Data Program Category Editors for binary copper alloys.
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Chakrabarti, D.J., Laughlin, D.E. The Bi−Cu (Bismuth-Copper) System. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 5, 148–155 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868951
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