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Invar Systems

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Physics and Engineering Applications of Magnetism

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences ((SSSOL,volume 92))

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Towards the end of the 19th Century, in order to encourage the spread of the metric system all over the world, the International Bureau of Standards was making great efforts to discover a new cheap alloy which could be used as a measure instead of the meter standard made from a Pt-Ir alloy which was very expensive. Guillaume who engaged in this project, finally after many trials, found a new alloy with the composition of 65% Fe and 35% Ni which exhibited an almost zero thermal expansion coefficient at room temperature. Since this new alloy had almost constant dimensions independent of temperature, he named it the “invariable alloy”, i.e. the “Invar alloy”.

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Nakamura, Y. (1991). Invar Systems. In: Ishikawa, Y., Miura, N. (eds) Physics and Engineering Applications of Magnetism. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84158-3_5

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