Journal of ALLOYS ; AND COMPOUNDS ELSEVIER Volume 252, Numbers 1—2, 5 May 1997 Contents Letters Hydriding combustion synthesis for the production of hydrogen storage alloy .......2.... .2.0.00. e0ee. e0ee LI T. Akiyama, H. Isogai, J. Yagi (Sendai, Japan) a Gg ee a ea ee ee me a ee cea a ne ae L5 L.A. Bendersky, R.M. Waterstrat (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) Synthesis and crystal structure of a new quaternary compound: La,AgSe,Si .......2..02..2 e. eee. e.ee .ee ns L8 S.-H. Lin, J.-G. Mao, G.-C. Guo, J.-S. Huang (Fuzhou, P.R. China) ee CO OE a ieS Y ok eee he se es Se ea Na a ee ek ks a Oe ale aes L12 L. Chi, H. Chen, H. Zhuang, J. Huang (Fujian, People’s Republic of China) Effect of surface modification of an MgNi alloy with graphite by ball-milling on the rate of hydrogen absorption ........ L16 S. Nohara, H. Inoue, Y. Fukumoto, C. I[wakura (Osaka, Japan) Peeeemnece: <r Seca. Serre eryseeee Wy TG TUE BONNE E(w ewee ee we ee ee L19 S. Otani, T. Aizawa, Y. Ishizawa (Ibaraki, Japan) Magnetic and electrical resistivity studies on RMn,Ge, (R= Gd—-Er) compounds ...................0...008. L22 V. Ivanov (Moscow, Russia), A. Szytuta (Krakow, Poland) Formation of perovekwe-type compounds La, .Ca, Bin, 11.0, (022505) 2... ce eee eee we ees L26 K.-Y. Wang, J. Arcas, D.-X. Chen, A. Hernando (Madrid, Spain) Zr,CoAs,, the first zirconium cobalt arsenide: a new ordered variant of the Fe,P type ..................02.08. L29 H. Kleinke (Ames, IA, USA) Formation and magnetic properties of compounds Er(Fe,_,.Co,),, ,;Nb),,; (Q0Sx504) .... 2.2... .2.. 20.2.22..0..0.48 . L32 K.-Y. Wang, D.-X. Chen, J. Arcas, M. Multigner, P. Crespo, M. Vazquez, A. Hernando (Madrid, Spain) Physics Preseure induced antiferrommenctiom (fe, Ni) BR. BUOYS 2. weee ee ee ee wee l K. Kamenev, Z. Arnold, J. Kamarad (Prague, Czech Republic), NV. Baranov (Ekaterinburg, Russia) Concentration dependence of the magnetic properties of melt-quenched P-type Mg,,Gd,Zn,,_, quasicrystals .......... 6 H. Saito, K. Fukamichi (Sendai, Japan), T. Goto (Tokyo, Japan), A.P. Tsai, A. Inoue, T. Masumoto (Sendai, Japan) Sn ae ea ire ge dl kk we va aw eS OY OS RS OR 12 T. Caillat, J.-P. Fleurial, A. Borshchevsky (Pasadena, CA, USA) Magnetic ordering of TbNi,Ga, studied by neutron diffraction and magnetic measurements ..............22200: 16 P. Schobinger-Papamantellos (Ziirich, Switzerland), F. Fauth (Grenoble, France), D.P. Middleton (Eindhoven, Netherlands), K.H.J. Buschow (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Eathainy increment measurements of cermam monontiride, CON... 6 cc te eee ee ew ee ee es 20 R.P.C. Schram, J.G. Boshoven, E.H.P. Cordfunke, R.J.M. Konings, R.R. van der Laan (Petten, Netherlands) Sn Rg fs al ch sae Re RU Se we Alea a ee OP eae a ee 24 S.K. Dhar (Bombay, India), P. Manfrinetti, A. Palenzona (Genova, Italy) Is SUN CO LU 0 ig Ge Wak saeJ OS whet ob le loin Lae ae BTW uy,S ebel aef aeces aes 28 R.P. Vijayalakshmi, K.P.S. Reddy, R. Venugopal, D.R. Reddy, B.K. Reddy (Tirupati, India) Elsevier Science S.A. vi Contents Instability of the Co-magnetic moment in THC0.M), (M=ALSI) 23. «1 1 nc eee me eee me eee ewe Je NV. Baranov (Ekaterinburg, Russia), M.I. Bartashevich (Ekaterinburg, Russia and Tokyo, Japan), T. Goto (Tokyo, Japan), A.A. Yermakov, A.E. Karkin, A.N. Pirogov, A.E. Teplykh (Ekaterinburg, Russia) Magnetic properties of NdMn,Sn, and SmMn,Sn, compounds from susceptibility measurements and neutron diffraction study 4] B. Malaman, G. Venturini, B. Chafik El Idrissi (Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France), E. Ressouche (Grenoble, France) Uniaxial antiferromagnetic ordering in HoNiSi,. A neutron and magnetic study .. 2... 2. ee ee ee 50 P. Schobinger-Papamantellos (Ziirich, Switzerland), F. Fauth (Grenoble, France), K.H.J. Buschow (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Serucrene Se Geter Be res CO ER He eee et 53 O. Oleksyn, P. Schobinger-Papamantellos (Ziirich, Switzerland), C. Ritter (Grenoble, France), C.H. de Groot, K.H.J. Buschow (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Chemistry Preparation and luminescence characteristics of the europium and terbium complexes incorporated into a silica matrix using a DN re eet he eS aN i Ge ainsi OE oe oe NN Og dk Be ee SOMO ee REA, we Oe 59 T. Jin, S. Tsutsumi, Y. Deguchi, K. Machida, G. Adachi (Osaka, Japan) Oxygen gonsiowcmomety Of Lanie,., (2 = Le, FT, MG; SM GWE TT) 0 6 eeee e eee eas 67 T. Atsumi, T. Ohgushi, H. Namikata, N. Kamegashira (Toyohashi, Japan) Preparation and characterisation of TILn(SO,),-H,O (Ln = Sm to Lu, Y) 71 2 ee es ee ee oe i a i eo. er a ee a a a i i a a ee P.N. Iyer, K.D. Singh Mudher, N.K. Kulkarni (Bombay, India) Structure and superconductivity in Y,_,Ln,Ba,_,Sr,Cu,O, (Ln = Lu, Tb, Gd, Pr and Ce); the influence of ionic size and ee es AC ae a Ge er ee ae A wa ae ARCk PRA RE le OR RR ee ee ee 76 P. Berastegui, S.-G. Eriksson, L.-G. Johansson (Goteborg, Sweden) A method for designing a hydrogen absorbing LaNi,_,_,Mn,Al, alloy for a chemical refrigeration system 83 % £2 « * (2° @ - 3 Soe H. Nakamura, Y. Nakamura, S. Fujitani, I. Yonezu (Osaka, Japan) cee ee ee ts es ie eae ee we Re Ok Ke ee ee 88 Yu.N. Grin, K. Hiebl, P. Rogl (Wien, Austria), C. Godart, E. Alleno (Meudon and Orsay, France) Ternary transition metal antimonides and bismuthides with MgAgAs-type and filled NiAs-type structure 93 C.B.H. Evers, C.G. Richter, K. Hartjes, W. Jeitschko (Minster, Germany ) Synthesis and crystal structure of Al,BC, the first boridecarbide of aluminium ee a oo oe oe ie oe oe aoe ee oe ce et ef ee OE ee ee F.D. Meyer, H. Hillebrecht (Freiburg, Germany) Synthesis of monodispersed LaPO, particles using the hydrothermal reaction of an La(edta) chelate precursor and phosphate ions ee ee ee ee. es) Oa a ee a a ee ae er ee Ate ge et Ne ee re Ra ee Ae Oe ee a eo ek Se. ey et A See ee ee ee ee oe a er i, Oe ee ee A. ee i i a i Te ee Y. Fujishiro, H. Ito, T. Sato, A. Okuwaki (Sendai, Japan) Metallurgy Review Atomic environment classification of the tetragonal ‘intermetallic’ structure types . a a a ok cee) ee oer ae ee ee eee ee ge SS fe Oe ae ee J.L.C. Daams (Eindhoven, Netherlands), P. Villars (Vitznau, Switzerland) ees en Ors ak ey gS re eR ee ee ee Y. Jinling, L. Jingkui, T. Weihua, S. Ying, C. Xiaolong, R. Guanghui (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) i i he oe oi Ug, gs bce eit a ole iggy ey ew gl' ge wiles bw ae J.M. Haschke, T.E. Ricketts (Los Alamos, NM, USA) Thermodynamic properties of helium bubbles in aged plutonium ...... 1... ec et tee ee ee tes P.G. Klemens (Storrs, CT, USA), B. Cort (Los Alamos, NM, USA) petnebey of formation of ecld—sllris ied lous. wg kk 5 cc a a ee ee eee as A. Yassin (Baghdad, Iraq), R. Castanet (Marseille, France) Contents Vii eee Se ee eee 0 Oe ee be SN. le ee be ee ele ole ew eee a ee owen 166 W.-S. Kim (Taejon, Republic of Korea) The influence of relaxation of stresses occurring during the B >a transformation of tin on the kinetics of the transformation . 172 A.A. Matvienko, A.A. Sidelnikov (Novosibirsk, Russia) Structural study of mechanically alloyed Cu,,Cr,,. by anomalous X-ray diffraction and EXAFS-spectroscopy .......... 179 K.B. Gerasimov, SV. Mytnichenko, SV. Pavlov, V.A. Chernov, S.G. Nikitenko (Novosibirsk, Russia) Influence of the isotypical A’, A'° and B'' solvents on the een Se We a OO ie ek ee eee ee ee eee ek 184 M. Nuding, M. Ellner (Stuttgart, Germany) The Al—Cr—Fe system—Phases and phase equilibria in the Al-rich corner... 2... 2... ee ee ee 192 M. Palm (Disseldorf, Germany) Hydrogenation behaviour and structure of R,Fe,B, (R = Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd and Tb) borides .................. 201 V.A. Yartys (Birmingham, UK), G. Wiesinger (Vienna, Austria), I.R. Harris (Birmingham, UK) The thermodynamics of hydrogen absorption/desorption by Pd—Co alloys ...........0 2.0.00... eee eee eee 209 D. Wang, K.-Y. Lee, S. Luo, T.B. Flanagan (Burlington, VT, USA) Study of the ternary phase diagrams of the cadmium—germanium-tin and cadmium-—germanium-lead systems .......... 219 E. Dichi, G. Morgant, B. Legendre (Chatenay-Malabry, France) Materials Science ee ee nee gh WS kb A Ae A SN eS Rw eR ea oa ae eo we 230 L. Zhongyi, J. Zhanpeng (Changsha, China) Amorphization and electrochemical hydrogen storage properties of mechanically alloyed Mg-Ni ................. 234 W. Liu, H. Wu (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), Y. Lei, Q. Wang, J. Wu (Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China) I oh ie rs ae dh ga ig a Gok lahat “ig. WpS G TRS tgyC ap ah oak te AS soe Re aa eg Gh ero a a 738 A. Hightower, B. Fultz, R.C. Bowman (Pasadena, CA, USA) Phase formation during ball milling and subsequent thermal decomposition of Ti-Al—Si powder blends ............. 245 Z.Q. Guan, Th. Pfullmann, M. Oehring, R. Bormann (Geesthacht, Germany) ne a A ci Ga ete 4 ek eo EO dee BEN Oe le ee Oe ee 253 Subject Index of Volume 252 —————