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IN the course of an examination of the coatings formed on the tungsten electrodes of a spark gap and of a film sputtered from the electrodes on to the walls of a glass container, it has been found that both the coatings and the film contained a considerable proportion of α-tungsten in addition to normal body-centred cubic tungsten.
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PETCH, N. α-Tungsten. Nature 154, 337 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154337a0
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