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THE procedure adopted to produce a fine grain-size in uranium has much in common with that used to improve the harden ability of steel. In both cases, alloying elements are added to retard and modify the phase transformation. It is of considerable interest, therefore, to ascertain the extent to which this analogy receives support from the results of recent experiments1 in which Jominy end-quench data have been produced for binary, ternary and quaternary alloys of uranium with molybdenum, chromium and niobium.
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GITTUS, J. Analysis of Effects of Dilute Alloying Additions on the Grain-size of Uranium. Nature 201, 916 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201916a0
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