Percolation frustrated

Robert W. Cahn ()
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Robert W. Cahn: University of Cambridge

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6647, 121-122

Abstract: Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, and is used in large quantities on ships. Sea water can de-alloy brass, removing all the zinc, if the fraction of zinc is high — but traces of arsenic and boron, in equal quantities, can stabilize the metal. They probably do it by combining as As-B pairs to occupy double vacancies in the zinc, stopping these vacancies from diffusing through the infinite zinc cluster that is present in the alloy.

Date: 1997
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