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Permeability of Metals to Hydrogen

Nature volume 139, page 1113 (1937)Cite this article

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IT is well known that all the common metals are permeable to hydrogen at high temperatures. The accompanying table brings out the rather remarkable fact that, at 1,000° C., the permeability of the metals for which data are available only varies by a factor of about 10.

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SMITHELLS, C. Permeability of Metals to Hydrogen. Nature 139, 1113 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391113a0

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