An analysis of the grain refinement of magnesium by zirconium

Magnesium Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-180

  Saha, P ^a   Viswanathan, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Faceted particle; Grain refinement; Magnesium; Particle size distribution; TEM; Zirconium

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM CASTINGS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCONIUM;

FACETED PARTICLES; GRAIN DENSITY; MASTER ALLOYS; NUCLEATION SITES; PARTICLE SIZE AND MORPHOLOGIES; POURING TEMPERATURES; SETTLING TIME; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861367023     PISSN: 15454150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118062029.ch34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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