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IT has been amply demonstrated that normally brittle metals exhibit substantial ductility at low temperatures when interstitial impurity-levels are extremely low. This is particularly true for interstitial nitrogen in chromium1. As little as 15 p.p.m. nitrogen has been reported to embrittle chromium2.
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SCRUGGS, D. Interaction of Spinel Crystals and Chromium Nitride in Chromium. Nature 207, 401 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207401a0
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