Micromechanical hardness of strontium tartrate trihydrate crystals

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3469-3473

  Arora, S K ^a   Patel, Vipul ^a   Kothari, Anjana ^a   Chudasama, Bhupendra ^a  

^a SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MICROCRACKING; MICROHARDNESS;

BRITTLENESS INDEX; SILICA HYDROGEL; STRONTIUM TARTRATE TRIHYDRATE CRYSTALS;

STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33745309327     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2005.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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