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Eppelsheimer and Reitsma1 have recently pointed out that a tensile strength of 7.99 tons/in.2 hitherto ascribed to indium containing 0.29 per cent impurities was really the value for gold containing 0.29 per cent indium. For this reason they redetermined the tensile properties of 99.97 + per cent indium, finding tensile strength 388 1b./in.2 and 70 per cent elongation.
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Eppelsheimer, D. S., and Reitsma, jun., L. J., Nature, 182, 339 (1958).
Jaffee, R. I., and Weiss, S. M., Materials and Methods, 36 (3), 113 (1952).
Quoted in Nat. Bur. Stand. Circ. C, 447, “Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys”, p. 416 (1943).
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FULLMAN, B. Tensile Strength of Indium. Nature 182, 862 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182862a0
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