The possibility of producing fiber-strengthened eutectic composites in situ
in the quasibinary EuB6-MeB2 (Me-Zr, Hf, Sc) alloys is shown. By direction
al crystallization of the eutectic composition perfect real structures an t
he base of uniformly distributed MeB2 fibers in the EuB6 matrix may be form
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