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The Book Mobile Was At My DoorPosted by Amanda M. HartnettThursday, May 29th, 2008 |
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The Book Mobile delivers books of all types to anxiously awaiting students. They were not the ones who delivered my new indium alloys phase diagram book, but I was equally excited to receive it. |
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Just like the yearly event which occurred in my grade school, new books were delivered to my door in their shiny cellophane wrapping just waiting for the unearthing of new data. In my book order was a new revision of a fantastic book I use on a regular basis and believe is deserving of recognition.
This book, called Phase Diagrams of Indium Alloys by Charles White and Hiroaki Okamoto, is something any high tech indium material user should have handy. The latest revision, number 8, was just printed and I have a crisp new copy! I encourage you to get one too if you don’t already have one. A copy can be purchased through ASM International.
The book details the properties of nearly 100 binary and ternary systems, all indium contained. Each system is outlined to include a phase diagram and crystal structure data. I used this information just today to identify expected melting temperatures and homogeneity of an indium alloy which I was not familiar with already.
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Posted by Amanda M. Hartnett at 11:22 AM (May 29th, 2008)
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