Structural relaxation in FeSiB-Cu(NbX) alloys is evidenced by enthalpy rele
ase exothermic DSC maxima and by changes in the Curie temperature of the am
orphous phase upon annealing. A monotonic increase in T-C with annealing te
mperature and time is found and the equilibrium T-C values show a linear de
pendence with the inverse of the annealing temperature. An uniformly linear
log (time) kinetics results and the relaxation time decreases exponentiall
y as the annealing temperature increases. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. Al
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