Metallurgical characterization of materials for the reference mass standard of the French watt balance experiment

Metrologia

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 659-669

  Meury, P A ^a   Molins, R ^b   Geneves, G ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PROPERTIES; HEATING TREATMENTS; INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE; MASS STANDARD; METALLURGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NEW MATERIAL; PLANCK CONSTANTS; PLATINUM-IRIDIUM ALLOYS; PRODUCTION MODES; WATT BALANCE;

CERIUM ALLOYS; IRIDIUM; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; PRECIOUS METAL ALLOYS; PRECIOUS METALS; SUPERALLOYS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78650118215     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/47/6/005     Document Type: Article

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