Abstract
THE great majority of the technically useful metals crystallize in the cubic system. There are, however, two important ones which have a hexagonal lattice, zinc and magnesium. Though neither of these has a history going back into the distant past, that of magnesium is much the shorter, the metal having been first isolated in 1808. This was about fifteen years before aluminium was isolated, but for various reasons the development of the latter was more rapid; and while aluminium had definitely established its place as an important industrial metal by about 1890, magnesium was only becoming a serious competitor in the neighbourhood of 1910.
The Technology of Magnesium and its Alloys
A translation from the German by the Technical Staffs of F. A. Hughes and Co. Ltd., and Magnesium Elektron, Ltd., of ‘Magnesium und seine Legierungen’, compiled by Dr. Adolf Beck. Pp. xxiv + 512. (Swinton, near Manchester: F. A. Hughes and Co. Ltd., 1940.) 30s. net.
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HAUGHTON, J. ULTRA–LIGHT ALLOYS. Nature 148, 67–68 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148067a0
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