Amorphous Fe-Sn-B ahoy deposits have been first and successfully prepared b
y reducing iron and tin salts with KBH, in an aqueous solution. It was foun
d that the deposits show an amorphous structure when the boron content rang
es from 12.1 to 27.0 at.%. A two-step process of crystallization was observ
ed for the amorphous alloys. The crystallization process of different depos
its varied with the composition. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights
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