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A study has been made of highly nitrogenated pure iron and iron-aluminum alloy powder containing 2 wt.% Al (Fe-2Al) using Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. The samples were prepared by high-temperature, high-pressure diffusion of nitrogen. They were prepared in a hot-isostatic-pressure (HIP) furnace at 1000 °C at nitrogen pressures up to 200 MPa. The alloy powders contained up to 8 at.% nitrogen as determined by vacuum fusion analysis. XRD analysis indicates that for the pure iron powders, the lattice spacing remained independent of nitrogen concentration, but that for the Fe-2Al powders, it decreased with increasing nitrogen concentration. Mössbauer analysis showed that for the pure iron powders, most of the nitrogen was associated with the formation of the iron nitride Fe4N. For the alloy powders containing less than 5 at.% nitrogen, all of the nitrogen was contained interstitially. The presence of nitrogen completely eliminated the conduction-electron spin-density oscillations observed in many ferromagnetic alloys.
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Cook, D.C., Rawers, J.C. The microstructural properties of highly nitrogenated iron and iron-aluminum powders. Hyperfine Interact 92, 959–964 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02065719
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