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The Sn element has two or perhaps three allotropic crystalline forms. On warming, gray, or α-Sn, with the cubic, diamond structure, changes at 13.2°C into white, or ß-Sn, the ordinary form of the metal (tetragonal structure). Early experiments on α-Sn were performed on lumpy polycrystalline samples obtained by transforming ß-Sn at temperatures below 13°C. In 1958 Ewald and Tufte [1] succeeded in preparing a-Sn single crystals from a saturated mercury solution at -30°C. Reflectance measurements on samples from these crystals were performed by Lindquist and Ewald [2],
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Adachi, S. (1999). Gray Tin (α-Sn). In: Optical Constants of Crystalline and Amorphous Semiconductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5247-5_5
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