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The Al-Si (Aluminum-Silicon) system

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This work was jointly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the National Bureau of Standards through the Metallurgy Division and through the Office of Standard Reference Data. Literature searched through 1982. Drs. Murray and McAlister are the ASM/NBS Data Program Category Editors for binary aluminum alloys.

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Murray, J.L., McAlister, A.J. The Al-Si (Aluminum-Silicon) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 5, 74–84 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868729

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