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Specific Metals and Alloys ...... 1 Rare Earth Metals ...... 720 Germanium and Germanium Compounds ...... 733 Introduction to Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys ...... 3 Gallium and Gallium Compounds ...... 739 Alloy and Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum and Indium and Bismuth ...... 750 Aluminum Alloys ...... 15 Special-Purpose Materials ...... 759 Aluminum Mill and Engineered Wrought Products ...... 29 Properties of Wrought Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys ..... 62 Magnetically Soft Materials ...... 761 Aluminum Foundry Products ...... 123 Permanent Magnet Materials ...... 782 Properties of Cast Aluminum Alloys ...... 152 Metallic Glasses ...... 804 Aluminum-Lithium Alloys ...... 178 Electrical Resistance Alloys ...... 822 High-Strength Aluminum P/M Alloys ...... 200 Electrical Contact Materials ...... 840 Appendix: Conventionally Pressed and Sintered Aluminum Thermocouple Materials ...... 869 P/M Alloys ...... 210 Low-Expansion Alloys ...... 889 Introduction to Copper and Copper Alloys ...... 216 Shape Memory Alloys ...... 897 Wrought Copper and Copper Alloy Products ...... 241 Metal-Matrix Composites ...... 903 Sheet and Strip ...... 241 Ordered Intermetallics ...... 913 Tubular Products ...... 248 Dispersion-Strengthened Nickel-Base and Iron-Base Alloys .943 Wire and Cable ...... 250 Cemented Carbides ...... 950 Stress Relaxation Characteristics ...... 260 Cermets ...... 978 Properties of Wrought Coppers and Copper Alloys ...... 265 Superabrasives and Ultrahard Tool Materials ...... 1008 Selection and Application of Copper Alloy Castings ...... 346 Structural Ceramics ...... 1019 Properties of Cast Copper Alloys ...... 356 Superconducting Materials ...... 1025 Copper P/M Products ...... 392 Introduction ...... 1027 Beryllium-Copper and Other Beryllium-Containing Alloys .. 403 Principles of Superconductivity ...... 1030 Nickel and Nickel Alloys ...... 428 Niobium-Titanium Superconductors ...... 1043 Cobalt and Cobalt Alloys ...... 446 AI5 Superconductors ...... 1060 Selection and Application of Magnesium and Magnesium Ternary Molybdenum Chalcogenides (Chevrel Phases) .... 1077 Alloys ...... 455 Thin-Film Materials ...... 1081 Properties of Magnesium Alloys ...... 480 High-Temperature Superconductors for Wires and Tapes.. 1085 Tin and Tin Alloys ...... 517 Zinc and Zinc Alloys ...... 527 Pure Metals ...... 1091 Lead and Lead Alloys ...... 543 Preparation and Characterization of Pure Metals ...... 1093 Refractory Metals and Alloys ...... 557 Periodic Table of the Elements ...... 1098 Introduction ...... 557 Properties of Pure Metals ...... 1099 Niobium ...... 565 Properties of the Rare Earth Metals ...... 1178 Tantalum ...... 571 Properties of the Actinide Metals (Ac-Pu) ...... 1189 Molybdenum ...... 574 Properties of the Transplutonium Actinide Metals Tungsten ...... 577 (Am-Fro) ...... 1198 Rhenium ...... 581 Special Engineering Topics ...... 1203 Refractory Metal Fiber-Reinforced Composites ...... 582 Introduction to Titanium and Titanium Alloys ...... 586 Recycling of Nonferrous Alloys ...... 1205 Wrought Titanium and Titanium Alloys ...... 592 Recycling of Aluminum ...... 1205 Titanium and Titanium Alloy Castings ...... 634 Recycling of Copper ...... 1213 Titanium P/M Products ...... 647 Recycling of Magnesium ...... 1216 Zirconium and Hafnium ...... 661 Recycling of Tin ...... 1218 Uranium and Uranium Alloys ...... 670 Recycling of Lead ...... 1221 Beryllium ...... 683 Recycling of Zinc ...... 1223 Precious Metals ...... 688 Recycling of Zinc From EAF Dust ...... 1224 Precious Metals and Their Uses ...... 688 Recycling of Titanium ...... 1226 Precious Metals in Dentistry ...... 695 Recycling of Electronic Scrap ...... 1228 Properties of Precious Metals ...... 699 Toxicity of Metals ...... 1233 Silver and Silver Alloys ...... 699 Metric Conversion Guide ...... 1270 Gold and Gold Alloys ...... 704 Platinum and Platinum Alloys ...... 707 Abbreviations, Symbols, and Tradenames ...... 1273 Palladium and Palladium Alloys ...... 714 Index ...... 1279